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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 albafascia - Hodges#11181 (Schinia albafascia)

Species Schinia albafascia - Hodges#11181

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

Schinia albafascia? - Schinia albafascia

Small gray, white, and brown moth - Schinia albafascia

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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 albafascia (Schinia albafascia - Hodges#11181)

Hodges Number

11181

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia albafascia Smith, 1883

Phylogenetic sequence # 932159 (1)

Range

Southwestern Montana and Idaho, west to Oregon, south to central and southern California, east to Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.(2)

Season

Adults fly mid-July to early October.(2)

Food

Feeds on varieties of rubber rabbit brush (Ericameria nauseosa).(2)

See Also

Easily confused with S. ferrisi. S. albafascia has a larger, bold, quadrate discal spot on the hindwings. In ferrisi the spot is smaller and somewhat cresent shaped. The hindwing marginal band in ferrisi is also less bold and narrower than albafascia. Easlily separated by genatalia disection.(2)

Print References

Pogue, M.G. & C.E. Harp 2004. A review of the Schinia tertia (Grote) species complex (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae). (2)

Smith, J. B. 1883. Synopsis of North American Heliothinae. Trans. American Ent. Soc. 10: 231

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Pacific Northwest Moths (4)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

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.	A review of the Schinia tertia (Grote) species complex (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae) Micheal G. Pogue & Charles E. Harp. 2004. Magnolia Press Zootaxa 473: 1-32.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Pacific Northwest Moths

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 22 July, 2007 - 1:33pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 5 April, 2014 - 4:03pm

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