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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cuculliinae » Hooded Owlets (Cucullia) » Cucullia serraticornis - Hodges#10184 (Cucullia serraticornis)

Species Cucullia serraticornis - Hodges#10184

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · 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 Cuculliinae

Genus Cucullia (Hooded Owlets)

Species serraticornis (Cucullia serraticornis - Hodges#10184)

Hodges Number

10184

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cucullia serraticornis Lintner, 1874

Synonyms

Cucullia solidaginis Strecker, 1874

C. matricariae Strecker, 1874

Phylogenetic sequence # 931534

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 36 species of the genus Cucullia in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Lintner (1874) listed a wingspan of 1.7" (43.18 mm)

Range

Southern California and Arizona to Oregon. (2)

See Also

Cucullia comstocki with the black basal streak mentioned by Poole.

Print References

Lintner, J.A., 1874. Entomological Contributions, 3. p. 174.

Poole, R.W., 1995. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 26.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 65; pl. 2, figs. 39-41. (3)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (4)

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Nearctica.com (2)

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.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

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

4.	Pacific Northwest Moths

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 February, 2014 - 2:21pm
Last updated 23 February, 2014 - 7:35pm

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