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

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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
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
live adult image (Larry Line)
pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)