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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) » Eriopygini » Lacinipolia » Bristly Cutworm - Hodges#10397 (Lacinipolia renigera)

Species Lacinipolia renigera - Bristly Cutworm - Hodges#10397

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · 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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Eriopygini

Genus Lacinipolia

Species renigera (Bristly Cutworm - Hodges#10397)

Hodges Number

10397

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lacinipolia renigera (Stephens, 1829)

Celaena renigera Stephens, 1829

* phylogenetic sequence #933044

Numbers

94 species in the genus are found in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

forewing length 11 - 14 mm (2). Noticeably small for a noctuid; about half or two-thirds the size of the majority of species

Identification

Adult - combination of dark grayish-brown forewing and white-rimmed green reniform spot is distinctive; two other bright green spots usually present on forewing

Larvae - dark gray brown with pinkish brown middorsal and subdorsal lines. Diffuse blackish diamond mark on the dorsum of each segment. The lateral areas are pinkish brown. Head is brown with blackish reticulation and coronal stripes (2)

Range

All of North America except Yukon and Alaska; appears to be absent from the Gulf coastal plain and sparse in the western U.S.

Season

adults fly from May to October

Food

larvae feed on many species of herbaceous plants

Print References

Lafontaine J. D., and B. C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 94.(1)

Powell, J. A., and P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America.pl. 56.10f; p. 305(2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with photographs of pinned adults and DNA sequence

live adult images (Lynn Scott, Ontario)

pinned adult image (CBIF)

distribution in Canada; list of provinces and territories of occurrence (U. of Alberta, using CBIF data)

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.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 4 February, 2005 - 1:54pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Chuck Sexton, Randy Hardy
Last updated 10 August, 2019 - 12:33am

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