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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Eriopygini » Ulolonche » Ulolonche niveiguttata - Hodges#10575  (Ulolonche niveiguttata)

Species Ulolonche niveiguttata - Hodges#10575

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · 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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Eriopygini
Genus Ulolonche
Species niveiguttata (Ulolonche niveiguttata - Hodges#10575 )
Hodges Number
10575
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ulolonche niveiguttata (Grote, 1873) (1), (2)
Mamestra niveiguttata Grote, 1873 (3)
Phylogenetic sequence # 933126 (4)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 9 species of the genus Ulolonche in America north of Mexico. (4)
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2011) reduced the genus to 8 species by including U. marloffi as a synonym of U. fasciata. (5)
Size
Wingspan is 22-26 mm. (6), (2),
Identification
The original description as Mamestra niveiguttata Grote, is in the print references below.
The Smith revised description as Ulolonche niveiguttata is in PDF. (2)
Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (7)
Range
California to New Mexico. (8), (9), (10), (6)
Season
The main flight period is April to August. (6)
Food
The larval host is unknown.
See Also
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Grote, A.R. 1873. Descriptions of Noctuidae principally from California. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 1: 140.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (6)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (9)
BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems (7)
Lepbarcoding.org
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.Contributions towards a monograph of the Noctuidae of temperate North America: revision of some Taeniocampid genera
John B. Smith. 1889. Proceedings of the National Museum 12: 455-497.
3.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
4.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 .
5.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.
6.North American Moth Photographers Group
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
8.Assessment of insects, especially moths (Lepidoptera), of the White Sands National Monument
Eric H. Metzler. 2011. Western National Parks Association.
9.Moths of Southeast Arizona
10.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 April, 2012 - 11:16am
Last updated 30 September, 2013 - 9:46pm

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