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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) » Hadenini » Sideridis » Sideridis uscripta - Hodges#10261 (Sideridis uscripta)

Species Sideridis uscripta - Hodges#10261

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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 Hadenini
Genus Sideridis
Species uscripta (Sideridis uscripta - Hodges#10261)
Hodges Number
10261
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sideridis uscripta (Smith, 1891)
Trichoclea u-scripta (Smith, 1891)
Mamestra u-scripta Smith, 1891 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 932904
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed nine species of the genus Sideridis in America north of Mexico. (2)
Size
Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length 14-16 mm. (3)
Smith (1891) listed a wingspan of 39-41 mm. (1)
Identification
Range
Powell & Opler (2009) listed the range to include Alberta(4) and Manitoba to southeastern Arizona(5) and the central Sierra Nevada in California(6). (3)
Holotype collected Sierra Nevada, Nevada County, California. (1)
Season
Powell & Opler (2009) stated there is a single flight during June to early July. (3)
Moth Photographers Group reports May to August. (7)
Food
Powell & Opler (2009) reported the life history is unknown. (3)
Print References
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 55, fig. 39; p. 304. (3)
Smith, J.B., 1891. Contributions toward a monograph of the Noctuidae of temperate North America. Revision of the species of Mamestra. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 14: 228. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (7)
Pacific Northwest Moths (8)
University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (9)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (5)
Works Cited
1.Contributions toward a monograph of the Noctuidae of temperate North America. Revision of the species of Mamestra.
John B Smith. 1891. Proceedings of The United States National Museum 14: 197-276 .
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.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
4. An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada
Gregory R. Pohl, Gary G. Anweiler, B. Christian Schmidt, Norbert G. Kondla. 2010. ZooKeys 38: 1–549.
5.Moths of Southeast Arizona
6.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
7.North American Moth Photographers Group
8.Pacific Northwest Moths
9.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 1 October, 2013 - 12:20am

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