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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 » Xestia » Xestia conchis - Hodges#10946 (Xestia conchis)

Species Xestia conchis - Hodges#10946

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · 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 Noctuini
Subtribe Noctuina
Genus Xestia
Species conchis (Xestia conchis - Hodges#10946)
Hodges Number
10946
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Xestia conchis (Grote(1), 1879)
Agrotis conchis Grote, 1879 (2)
Phylogenetic sequence # 933574 (3)
Numbers
Size
Grote (1879) listed the wingspan as 40 mm. (2)
Identification
The Grote (1879) and Hampson (1903) descriptions are available in the print references.
Determined by Hugh McGuinness
Range
Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado. (4), (5), (6), (7)
The types were labeled "Colorado" in BMNH (British Museum of Natural History.
Season
The adults are most common from June to September.
Food
The larvae of this genus are general feeders and often considered a pest of crop production.
Print References
Grote, A.R., 1879. New western Noctuidae. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 66. (2)
Grote, A.R., 1882. Specimens of North American Noctuidae. An illustrated essay on the Noctuidae of North America , with "A colony of butterflies.". J. Van Voorst in London , 52.
Hampson, G.F., 1903. Noctuidae. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 4: 401.
Lafontaine, J.D., 1998. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.3. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 117; pl. 2.40-41. (8)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (6)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (9)
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.New western Noctuidæ
A. R. Grote. 1879. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 61-66.
3.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 .
4. Moths of Rocky Mountain National Park (USGS)
5.Survey of Utah Moth Species
6.North American Moth Photographers Group
7.Moths of Southeast Arizona
8.The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuiodea, Noctuinae, Noctuini (Part), Fascicle 27.3
J. Donald LaFontaine. 1998. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
9.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 August, 2013 - 8:09am
Last updated 13 May, 2014 - 6:38pm

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