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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) » Noctuini » Noctuina » Abagrotis » Abagrotis brunneipennis - Hodges#11044 (Abagrotis brunneipennis)

Species Abagrotis brunneipennis - Hodges#11044

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Abagrotis brunneipennis - Hodges #11044 - Abagrotis brunneipennis

Noctuidae: Abagrotis brunneipennis - Abagrotis brunneipennis

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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 Noctuini

Subtribe Noctuina

Genus Abagrotis

Species brunneipennis (Abagrotis brunneipennis - Hodges#11044)

Hodges Number

11044

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Abagrotis brunneipennis (Grote, 1875) (1)

Rhynchagrotis brunneipennis Grote, 1875

Phylogenetic sequence # 933683 (2)

Numbers

There are 39 Abagrotis species listed for America north of Mexico.(2)

Size

Wingspan 30-37 mm. (3)

Range

Widespread across Canada and northern United States and south to North Carolina in the east. (4)

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Habitat

Associated with the boreal forest and foothills.

Season

Adults are most common from June through October.

Food

Larval host is Vaccinium sp.

Remarks

Uncommon

Print References

Grote(1), A.R. 1875. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 127 .

Lafontaine, J. D., 1998. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.3: p. 235; pl. 7.23-26.(3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Pacific Northwest Moths

University of Alberta E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

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.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuiodea, Noctuinae, Noctuini (Part), Fascicle 27.3 J. Donald LaFontaine. 1998. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

4.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 November, 2012 - 10:46am
Last updated 18 May, 2013 - 6:05pm

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