Species Heliothelopsis arbutalis - Hodges#4841

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Pyraloidea (Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths)

Family Crambidae (Crambid Snout Moths)

Subfamily Odontiinae

Tribe Odontiini

Genus Heliothelopsis

Species arbutalis (Heliothelopsis arbutalis - Hodges#4841)

Hodges Number

4841

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Heliothelopsis arbutalis (Snellen, 1875)

Aporodes arbutalis Snellen, 1875

Panemeria rhea Druce, 1898

Noctuelia rhea Barnes & Benjamin, 1924

Size

Wingspan: about 25 mm (1)

Identification

Forewings dark brown with a narrow grey submarginal line from the apex to the anal angle. The hindwings are black, crossed in the middle with a pale yellow-orange band from the costal margin to the inner margin. (1)

Range

Records from southern Arizona. (1)

Season

Records from May and September. (1)

Print References

Druce, H. 1894. Descriptions of some new Species of Heterocera from Central America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, London 13 (ser. 6): 360.

Munroe, E.G. 1961. Synopsis of the North American Odontiinae, with descriptions of new genera and species (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, Ottawa 93 (24): 52. (2)

Snellen, P.C.T. 1875. Opgave der Geometrina en Pyralidina, in Nieuw Granada en op St. Thomas en Jamaica verzameld door W. Baron von Nolcken, met beschrijving en afbeelding der nieuwe soorten. Tweede Afdeeling: Pyralidina. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, Gravenhage 18: 190, pl. 11 fig. 2.

Internet References

Species page at Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)

Species page at The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Species page at Wikipedia (1)

Works Cited

1.	Wikipedia

2.	Synopsis of the North American Odontiinae, with descriptions of new genera and species (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Eugene G. Munroe. 1961. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 93(24): 1-93.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 14 December, 2015 - 12:06pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 17 February, 2017 - 11:57pm

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