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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 » Heliothodes » Heliothodes diminutiva - Hodges#11058 (Heliothodes diminutiva)

Species Heliothodes diminutiva - Hodges#11058

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · 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 Heliothinae

Genus Heliothodes

Species diminutiva (Heliothodes diminutiva - Hodges#11058)

Hodges Number

11058

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Heliothis diminutivus Grote, 1873

Heliothodes diminutiva Hampson, 1910

bifida Strand, 1912

fasciata (Edwards, 1875)

joaquin McDunnough, 1946

macromacula Strand, 1912

sabulosa (Smith, 1906)

suffusana Strand, 1912

Phylogenetic sequence # 932036 (1)

Explanation of Names

Gr. Helioth- = moon

Note: There has been confusion over the gender of the genus name here...and consequently, various authors have used different endings for the epithets of species names: e.g diminutiva vs. diminutivus and fasciata vs. fasciatus, etc. For more details, see the comment here.

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (2)

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Nix Nature Center - photos of living adults

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

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.	Pacific Northwest Moths

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Cotinis on 30 May, 2007 - 2:15pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Aaron Schusteff, Chris Grinter, Blocky
Last updated 18 April, 2023 - 7:40pm

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