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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Catocalini » Underwings (Catocala) » Sappho Underwing - Hodges#8786 (Catocala sappho)

Species Catocala sappho - Sappho Underwing - Hodges#8786

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

7/20/2020 Catocala sappho - Catocala sappho

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Erebinae

Tribe Catocalini

Genus Catocala (Underwings)

Species sappho (Sappho Underwing - Hodges#8786)

Hodges Number

8786

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Catocala sappho Strecker, 1874 (1), (2)

Catabapta sappho (3)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for the Greek poet Sappho (Σαπφώ) of the island of Lesbos.

Size

Wingspan 62-75 mm. (4)

Range

Virginia and Tennessee, south to Florida, west to Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Illinois. (4)

Type locality: [Dallas], Texas (Mr. J. Boll). (1), (5)

Season

Adults fly May to July. September and October in higher elevations.

Food

Larval hosts possibly hickory and pecan. (4)

Print References

Barnes, Wm. & J.H. McDunnough, 1918. Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1): p.12; Pl.1, f.14. (2)

Strecker, H., 1874. Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations (v. 8-11). Owen's Steam Book & Job Printing, p.95; Pl.11, f.4. (1)

Internet References

moth Photographers Group (6)

Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (4)

Ferdinand Heinrich Herman Strecker (1836-1901)

Works Cited

1.	Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations (v. 8-11) Herman Strecker. 1874. Owen's Steam Book & Job Printing.

2.	Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. William Barnes, James Halliday McDunnough. 1918. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1).

3.	The genus Catocala. George. D. Hulst. 1884. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 7(1): 14-56.

4.	Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala

5.	Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). I. Gall, Lawrence F. & David C. Hawks. 1990. Fieldiana. Zoology. 59: 1-16.

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 11 March, 2018 - 10:06am

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