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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Heliothis » Heliothis acesias - Hodges#11072.1 (Heliothis acesias)

Species Heliothis acesias - Hodges#11072.1

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 Heliothinae
Genus Heliothis
Species acesias (Heliothis acesias - Hodges#11072.1)
Hodges Number
11072.1
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Heliothis acesias Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 (1)
Formerly considered a color form of Heliothis phloxiphaga (2)
Phylogenetic sequence # 932047 (1)
Numbers
There are ten Heliothis species listed for America north of Mexico.(1)
Size
Forewing length 15-16 mm. (3)
Identification
Forewing median band is curved at the reniform compared to sharply angled in Heliothis phloxiphaga.
Hindwing is pale yellow or bright yellow-orange with a large black curved discal mark. There is a black terminal band which has a oblong yellow spot midway.
Range
Hardwick (1994) reported the range as Alberta and Ontario, south to southern Idaho and northeastern Nevada. (2)
Moth Photographers Group extends the range to Nova Scotia, south to about Indiana.
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Adults appear to be most common from May to September. (4)
Hardwick (1994) recorded adults from mid June through September. (2)
Food
Probably the flowers of Asters, and possibly also some of the same host plants as H. phloxiphaga (5)
See Also
Heliothis phloxiphaga has a bolder median band that is sharply angled at the reniform.
Print References
Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875. Nov. pl. 108, fig. 42.
Hardwick, D.F. 1994. Review of the Phloxiphaga group of the genus Heliothis (Noctuidae: Heliothentinae) with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 48: 106. (2)
Internet References
Pacific Northwest Moths
Moth Photographers Group
E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD
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.A review of the Phloxiphaga group of the genus Heliothis (Noctuidae: Heliothentinae) with description of a new species
David F. Hardwick. 1994. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 48(2): 106-110.
3.Pacific Northwest Moths
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.Les Guides des Papillons du Quebec
Louis Handfield. 1999. Broquet.
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 June, 2012 - 10:59am
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor
Last updated 20 August, 2016 - 2:41pm

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