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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 intermontana - Hodges#11083.2 (Schinia intermontana)

Species Schinia intermontana - Hodges#11083.2

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
Mormon Metalmark? - Schinia intermontana
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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 intermontana (Schinia intermontana - Hodges#11083.2)
Hodges Number
11083.2
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Schinia intermontana Hardwick, 1958 (1),(2)
Schinia villosa intermontana Hardwick 1958
Phylogenetic sequence # 932106 (2)
Size
Forewing length about 8 mm.
Range
California to Colorado and British Columbia. (3), (4), (5)
Habitat
Dry grasslands and sagebrush.
Season
The main flight period appears to be April to July.
Food
Hardwick (1996) reported the larvae feed on the flowers of Erigeron linearis (Hook.) Piper (fleabane). (1)
See Also
Schinia perminuta
Heliothodes diminutiva
Internet References
Pacific Northwest Moths (6)
Moth Photographers Group (5)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
Moths of Canada: Heliothinae PDF
Works Cited
1.A Monograph to the New World Heliothentinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
David F. Hardwick. 1996. Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
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.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
4.Survey of Utah Moth Species
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.Pacific Northwest Moths
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 24 September, 2014 - 10:28pm
Last updated 25 September, 2014 - 2:04pm

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