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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Leucaniini » Mythimna

Genus Mythimna

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Internet References

Noctuidae: Mythimna unipuncta - Mythimna unipuncta

Mythimna unipuncta? - Mythimna unipuncta

This may be a specimen of armyworm moth, Mythimna unipuncta, in southeastern Arizona - Mythimna unipuncta

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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Leucaniini

Genus Mythimna

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Mythimna Ochsenheimer, 1816; Schmett. Eur. 4: 78

syn. Philostola Billberg, 1820

syn. Aletia Hübner, [1821]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (15): 239

syn. Hyphilare Hübner, [1821]; Verz. bek. Schmett. (15): 239

syn. Mithimna Sodoffsky, 1837; Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 1837 (6): 87

syn. Hyperiodes Warren, 1910; in Seitz, Grosschmett. Erde, 3: 94

syn. Hypopteridia Warren, 1912

syn. Pseudaletia Franclemont, 1951; Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 53 (2) : 64

syn. Sablia Sukhareva, 1973; Ent. Review, 52: 405, 413

syn. Dysaletia Sugi, 1982

syn. Morphopoliana Hreblay & Legrain, 1996

syn. Allitoria Beck, 1996

syn. Conithimna, Gruathimna, Foehstia, Pudothimna, Ferrathimna, Allitoria Beck, 1999

Numbers

4 species in North America (includes the former Aletia and Psuedaletia - 2 species each - listed at Nearctica.com)

3 species in Canada (CBIF)

Range

represented coast to coast in North America, north to the arctic

Remarks

The Armyworm (formerly Pseudaletia unipuncta) is now included in Mythimna

Internet References

pinned adult images of all 3 species occurring in Canada (CBIF)

taxonomic notes explaining the dissolution of Aletia and Pseudaletia into the genus Mythimna (CBIF)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 February, 2005 - 10:23pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 8 July, 2012 - 8:39pm

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