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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Acontia » Acontia behrii - Hodges#9164 (Acontia behrii)

Species Acontia behrii - Hodges#9164

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Tarache sp? maybe arida - Acontia behrii

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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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)

Tribe Acontiini

Genus Acontia

Species behrii (Acontia behrii - Hodges#9164)

Hodges Number

9164

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acontia behrii Smith, 1900 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 931374 (2)

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of Dr. Hans Hermann Behr (1818-1904), who collected the first specimens. (1)

Size

Smith (1900) listed a wingspan of 25 mm. (1)

Poole reports the forewing length about 10 mm. (3)

Range

California, Arizona to the Big Bend region of Texas. (3)

Holotype male from California. (4), (5)

Print References

Smith, J.B., 1900 Contribution toward a monograph of the Noctuidae of boreal North America. Revision of the species of Acontia Ochs. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 27: 76. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (6)

Noctuidae of North America - nearctica.com (3)

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

Works Cited

1.	Contributions toward a monograph of the Noctuidae of boreal North America. Revision of the species of Acontia (Ochs) John B. Smith. 1900. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 27: 47-84.

2.	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 .

3.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

4.	The noctuid type material of John B. Smith (Lepidoptera) E. L. Todd. 1982. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1645: 1-228.

5.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 20 November, 2010 - 7:00am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 18 August, 2014 - 11:42pm

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