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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Zale » Gray Spring Zale - Hodges#8702 (Zale submediana)

Species Zale submediana - Gray Spring Zale - Hodges#8702

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Zale obliqua – Oblique Zale Hodges #8699 - Zale submediana

Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

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 Omopterini

Genus Zale

Species submediana (Gray Spring Zale - Hodges#8702)

Hodges Number

8702

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Zale submediana Strand, 1917

* phylogenetic sequence #931037

Numbers

Thirty-nine species of Zale are found in America north of Mexico(a)

Size

wingspan about 39 mm

Range

Wisconsin to Maine to New Jersey and North Carolina(1)

Food

jack. pitch and other hard pines(1)

See Also

Zale obliqua

Zale helata

Zale squamularis - pinned photo at Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. P. 38 (a) (PDF download)

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page with photos pinned adult.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with photographs of pinned adults and DNA sequence

Moths of Maryland - photo of pinned adult

Moth Photographers Group - photo of pinned adult and related species

ipmimages.org - photo of larva.

Works Cited

1.	Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America David L. Wagner. 2011. Princeton University Press.

2.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 30 July, 2011 - 10:32pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 27 June, 2012 - 10:40am

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