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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Carpenter and Clearwing Moths (Cossoidea) » Carpenter and Leopard Moths (Cossidae) » Cossinae » Comadia » Lupine Borer Moth - Hodges#2686 (Comadia bertholdi)

Species Comadia bertholdi - Lupine Borer Moth - Hodges#2686

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

Notodontid? - Comadia bertholdi - female

Noctuidae? Givira? - Comadia bertholdi - male

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Cossoidea (Carpenter and Clearwing Moths)

Family Cossidae (Carpenter and Leopard Moths)

Subfamily Cossinae

Genus Comadia

Species bertholdi (Lupine Borer Moth - Hodges#2686)

Hodges Number

2686

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Comadia bertholdi (Grote, 1880) (1)

Hypopta bertholdi Grote, 1880

Three subspecies were recognized.

Size

Forewing length: (2)

♂ 15-17 mm.

♀ 18-19 mm.

The males of the Colorado and Wyoming population are smaller at 13-16 mm.

Range

California to New Mexico and north to Utah and Wyoming. (3), (4), (5), (6)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

See Also

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1880. New species of moths. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 3: 45.

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. pl. 13.12, p. 127. (7)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

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

2.	A revision of the North American Comadia (Cossidae) Richard M. Brown. 1975. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 14(4): 189-212.

3.	Survey of Utah Moth Species

4.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

7.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 April, 2013 - 7:57pm
Last updated 26 April, 2014 - 3:26pm

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