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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Stiriinae » Stiriini » Stiria » Stiria dyari - Hodges#9786 (Stiria dyari)

Species Stiria dyari - Hodges#9786

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · 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 Stiriinae

Tribe Stiriini

Genus Stiria

Species dyari (Stiria dyari - Hodges#9786)

Hodges Number

9786

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Stiria dyari Hill, 1924 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 931690

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of Harrison G. Dyar Jr..

Size

Wingspan 31-35 mm. (1)

Range

Southern California in the Mohave Desert region and northern Baja California. Southern Nevada and western and southwestern Arizona as far east as the Baboquivari Mountains. (2)

Holotype collected in San Diego, California. (3)

Season

Adults are most common from March to June; a few August to October records exist. (4), (5)

See Also

Stiria rugifrons forewing has a dark basal patch. (1)

Print References

Hill, C.A. 1924. Pacific Coast Lepidoptera. No. 1 (Noctuidae). Some apparently new species of moths of the family Noctuidae and one Saturnid aberration from the southwestern United States. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 22: 183, pl. 3, fig. 3. (1)

Poole, R.W., 1995. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 26.1: p. 141; pl. 4.33-34. (6)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

nearctica.com

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Works Cited

1.	Pacific Coast Lepidoptera. No. 1 (Noctuidae). Some apparently new species of moths of the family Noctuidae and ... C. A. Hill. 1924. Bulletin of The Southern California Academy of Sciences 22: 183-186.

2.	Nomina Insecta Nearctica Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.

3.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

4.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 26.1. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae: Cuculliinae, Stiriinae, Psaphidinae. Robert W. Poole. 1995. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 April, 2013 - 4:04pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 13 September, 2016 - 11:10am

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