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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Xylenini » Xylenina » Eupsilia » Straight-toothed Sallow - Hodges#9933 (Eupsilia vinulenta)

Species Eupsilia vinulenta - Straight-toothed Sallow - Hodges#9933

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Noctuidae: Eupsilia vinulenta - Eupsilia vinulenta Noctuidae: Eupsilia venulenta - Eupsilia vinulenta Straight-Toothed Sallow - Eupsilia vinulenta straight-toothed sallow caterpillar - Eupsilia vinulenta Eupsilia vinulenta Noctuidae: Eupsilia vinulenta - Eupsilia vinulenta Eupsilia vinulenta – Straight-Toothed Sallow Moth - Eupsilia vinulenta Straight-toothed Sallow (Eupsilia vinulenta) - Eupsilia vinulenta
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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Xylenini
Subtribe Xylenina
Genus Eupsilia
Species vinulenta (Straight-toothed Sallow - Hodges#9933)

Hodges Number

9933

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eupsilia vinulenta (Grote, 1864)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed eight species of the genus north of Mexico. (1)

Identification

FW is variably pale orange to rusty brown or maroon, with purplish lines. AM is straight, ML angled and PM jagged. Reniform spot is either white or orange with tiny satellite dots on either side. (2)

scales

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group(3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)(4)
E.H. Strickland Museum

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.Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Tony on 31 March, 2005 - 5:32pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Nick Block, Robert Lord Zimlich, JoAnneRusso
Last updated 23 March, 2021 - 8:44am

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