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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Flower Moths (Schinia) » Schinia hanga - Hodges#11136 (Schinia hanga)

Species Schinia hanga - Hodges#11136

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · 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 Heliothinae

Genus Schinia (Flower Moths)

Species hanga (Schinia hanga - Hodges#11136)

Hodges Number

11136

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia hanga Strecker, 1898

Phylogenetic sequence # 932127 (1)

Size

Strecker (1898) listed a wingspan of 1.125" (28.5 mm.).

Identification

Strecker (1898) stated "The somewhat crenulated transverse lines and checkered fringe of primaries as well as the curve of the T. A. line [antemedial line] will serve to readily separate this from its three nearest allies."

Strecker (1898) original description is online in the print references below.

Range

Texas to Kansas. (2)

Holotype from Dallas, Texas. (3)

See Also

Schinia thoreaui

Schinia rivulosa

Schinia ultima

Print References

Dyar, H.G., 1903. A list of North American Lepidoptera and key to the literature of this order of insects. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 52: 190.

Strecker, H., 1898. Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, Indigenous and Exotic with Descriptions and Colored Illustrations, Suppl. 1: 9.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Moths of Dallas County (2) *listed only

Works Cited

1.	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 .

2.	Moths of Dallas County, Texas

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

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Butterflies of North America

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 9 December, 2013 - 8:42pm
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 4 September, 2017 - 7:40pm

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