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Species Aleptina inca - Hodges#9071

Hodges # 9071 - Aleptina inca ? - Aleptina inca

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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 Condicinae

Genus Aleptina

Species inca (Aleptina inca - Hodges#9071)

Hodges Number

9071

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Aleptina inca Dyar, 1902

Phylogentic sequence # 931633

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed five species of the genus Aleptina in America north of Mexico. (1)

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2011) added one new species. (2)

Size

Wingspan about 19 mm.

Identification

Range

Southern California and Baja California to Louisiana. (3)

Season

The main flight period is April through September. (3)

Food

Larval host is unknown.

Print References

Dyar, H.G., 1902. Description of a new Noctuidae. The Canadian Entomologist, 34: 105.

Metzler, E.H. & G.S. Forbes 2011. The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 3. A new species of Aleptina Dyar, 1902 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae, Psaphidini). Zookeys, p. 129; figs. 3, 4, 7, 8, 15. (4)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. The Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, p. 288, pl. 51, fig. 42. (5)

Todd E.L., Blanchard, A. & R.W. Poole, 1984. Revision of the genus Aleptina (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 86 (4): 952. (6)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

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.	Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico J. Donald Lafontaine & B. Christian Schmidt. 2011. Zookeys, 149.1805.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 3. A new species of ... Eric H. Metzler, Gregory S. Forbes. 2011. ZooKeys, 149: 125–133,.

5.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

6.	A revision of the genus Aleptina (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) E. L. Todd, A. Blanchard, R. W. Poole. 1984. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 86: 951-960.

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 April, 2010 - 2:27pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 October, 2014 - 5:40pm

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