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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Litter Moths (Herminiinae) » Macrochilo » Brown-lined Owlet - Hodges#8358 (Macrochilo litophora)

Species Macrochilo litophora - Brown-lined Owlet - Hodges#8358

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Internet References
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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 Erebidae
Subfamily Herminiinae (Litter Moths)
Genus Macrochilo
Species litophora (Brown-lined Owlet - Hodges#8358)
Hodges Number
8358
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Litognatha litophora (Grote, 1873)
Hormisa litophora (Smith, 1893)
Identification
See printed references below.
Range
eastern US and Ontario & Quebec
See Also
Zanclognatha pedipilalis
Print References
Description by Grote in the "Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences" 1874, p. 86 here
Description by Smith in the "Bulletin Of The Untied States Of America No. 48" 1895, p. 48 here
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG)
Barcoding Life (BOLD)
live adult image (Larry Line)
pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 26 January, 2005 - 6:27pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Ted Kropiewnicki, Fyn Kynd, Steve Morris
Last updated 28 April, 2023 - 10:48am

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