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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Flower Moths (Schinia) » Schinia roseitincta - Hodges#11092 (Schinia roseitincta)

Species Schinia roseitincta - Hodges#11092

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)
Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Heliothinae
Genus Schinia (Flower Moths)
Species roseitincta (Schinia roseitincta - Hodges#11092)
Hodges Number
11092
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Schinia roseitincta (Harvey, 1875) (1)
Lygtanthoecia roseitincta Harvey, 1875
Size
Wingspan is 18-22 mm. (2)
Identification
Harvey (1874) original description as Lygtanthoecia roseitincta is available online in the print references.
Distinctive scarlet and black hindwings. (3)
Range
Southeastern Alberta, Montana, Colorado, Utah, south to New Mexico and Texas. (4), (5), (6) (2)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Habitat
Arid grasslands and badlands.
Season
Adults are most often reported from April through September.(2)
Food
Schinia roseitincta is usually associated with Tetraneuris acaulis Greene (stemless four-nerve daisy). (Chuck Harp)
Remarks
Adults of this species are active both day and night.
See Also
Schinia bina

Schinia varix (3)
Print References
Harvey, L.F. 1874. Observations on North American moths No. 2. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. p. 278.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum (8)
Butterflies ans Moths of North America (BAMONA) (9)
Works Cited
1.Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico.
Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.A new species of Schinia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae) from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana
Ed Knudson, Charles Bordelon, Michael G. Pogue. 2003. Magnolia Press.
4.Moths of Dallas County, Texas
5.Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)
6.Survey of Utah Moth Species
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
8.University of Alberta Entomology Collection
9.Butterflies of North America
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 October, 2009 - 2:23pm
Last updated 21 June, 2018 - 9:34pm

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