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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Oncocnemidinae » Sympistis » chorda group (Sympistis chorda group) » Sympistis sokar - Hodges#10113.2 (Sympistis sokar)

Species Sympistis sokar - Hodges#10113.2

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Sympistis sokar, I believe. - Sympistis sokar

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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 Oncocnemidinae

Genus Sympistis

No Taxon (chorda group)

Species sokar (Sympistis sokar - Hodges#10113.2)

Hodges Number

10113.2

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sympistis sokar Troubridge, 2008 (1)

Size

Forewing length: 15-16 mm. (2), wingspan: 28-34 mm (1) (3).

Identification

See references below.

Range

Western Great Basin from northern Nevada to central Washington (1) (3).

Habitat

Habitat dry canyons with thin soil or basalt cliffs. Elevations ~ 2,700-5,800 ft (1) (3).

Season

Late July-September (1) (3).

Food

"No information is presently available regarding larval foodplants of this species, but beardtongues (Penstemon spp.) in the Scrophulariaceae are suspected based upon the habitat and preferences of many related species" (2).

See Also

Sympistis chorda and S. dischorda are very similar. Separated from S. chorda by range. Separated from S. dischorda by habitat. Sympistis youngi is also very similar.

Internet References

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

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

Species page at Pacific Northwest Moths (2)

Works Cited

1.	A generic realignment of the Oncocnemidini [sensu] (Hodges, 1983) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Oncocnemidinae), ..... J. T. Troubridge. 2008. Zootaxa 1903: 1-95.

2.	Pacific Northwest Moths

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Kyhl Austin on 2 September, 2016 - 11:46pm
Last updated 8 January, 2017 - 6:58pm

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