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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 » Flower Moths (Schinia) » Schinia suetus - Hodges#11088 (Schinia suetus)

Species Schinia suetus - Hodges#11088

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Noctuidae - Schinia sueta? - Schinia suetus

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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 Schinia (Flower Moths)

Species suetus (Schinia suetus - Hodges#11088)

Hodges Number

11088

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia sueta= misspelling of suetus

Heliothis suetus Grote, 1873

Explanation of Names

Current name based on Hodges et al. (1983); (1); alternate spelling used by some: Schinia suetus.

Numbers

123 Schinia species are found in America north of Mexico.(2)

Identification

Adult: forewing yellowish-gray with black speckling and lopsided whitish Y-shaped patch in median area; small triangular pale patch sometimes present in AM area near costa; hindwing black with two large white spots in median area and pale fringe.

Reddish form once considered subspecies.

Range

western North Americia: British Columbia to California, east to Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico

Food

larvae feed on lupine (Lupinus spp.)

See Also

forewing of Eutricopis nexilis and Schinia persimilis has dark reddish shading (compare images of all three species at CBIF.

S. persimilis - pinned photo at Moth Photographers Group.

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Eutricopis nexilis

Print References

Hardwick, D.F. 1996. A monograph of the North American Heliothentinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). David F. Hardwick, Ottawa, Ontario, 281 pp. (3)

For a critical reading of the above monograph please see the review by James K. Adams, Journal of the Lepdopterist Society 52(2), 1998, 222-225. (For PDF form see Internet References below)

Lafontaine J.D., Schmidt B.C. (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. (2)

Internet References

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

pinned adult image (CBIF)

foodplant (wikipedia.org)

distribution in Canada British Columbia only (U. of Alberta, using CBIF data)

Review of Hardwick, D.F. (op. cit.) by Adams, J.K. in PDF form.

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	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 .

3.	A Monograph to the New World Heliothentinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) David F. Hardwick. 1996. Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

Contributed by Cotinis on 30 May, 2007 - 2:20pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Hartmut Wisch, Maury Heiman, Chris Grinter
Last updated 8 March, 2013 - 6:37pm

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