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
See Also
forewing of Eutricopis nexilis and Schinia persimilis has dark reddish shading
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.
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.