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Species Zale sp-nr-strigimacula - Zale sp. nr. strigimacula - Hodges#8686.2

Estero Zale - Zale sp-nr-strigimacula - male

Zale sp-nr-strigimacula - Zale sp. nr. strigimacula - Hodges#8686.2 - Zale sp-nr-strigimacula - male

Species Zale sp-nr-strigimacula - Zale sp. nr. strigimacula - Hodges#8686.2 - Zale sp-nr-strigimacula

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Erebinae

Tribe Omopterini

Genus Zale

Species sp-nr-strigimacula (Zale sp. nr. strigimacula - Hodges#8686.2)

Hodges Number

8686.2

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Zale sp. nr. strigimacula – (Guenée, 1852)

* phylogentic sequence #931019.1

Explanation of Names

Zale sp. nr. strigimacula is an undescribed species known to range from Columbia to TX (Schmidt & Lafontaine, per. comm., 8/1/2017). Examples from TX have previously been misidentified as Z. obsita, Z. viridans and in some but not all cases Z. strigimacula. (Z. n. sp. nr. strigimacula is tentatively represented at BOLD in BIN BOLD:ABY4634 under the name Z. Lafontaine15.)

Print References

Knudson & Bordelon, 2004. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)

Works Cited

1.	Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 2B: Macro-Moths Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2004. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. xiv + 59 pp. 20 plates.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Steve Nanz on 1 September, 2017 - 11:56am

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