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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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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)

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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 A.W. Thomas 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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