Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


Previous events


TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Schinia tertia - Hodges#11179

White Moth with Blue Spots - Schinia tertia Schinia - Schinia tertia Hodges#11179 - Schinia tertia Schinia tertia - Hodges#11179 - Schinia tertia Schinia tertia? - Schinia tertia Schinia tertia #11179 - Schinia tertia - Schinia tertia Hodges#11179 - Schinia tertia
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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 tertia (Schinia tertia - Hodges#11179)
Hodges Number
11179
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
described in 1874 by Grote, who originally placed it in genus Tamila
Size
wingspan about 25 mm
Identification
Adult: forewing gray with broad white medial band but narrower than in S. albafascia; reniform spot dark gray to blackish; subterminal line white, jagged, irregular; fringe checkered; hindwing white basally; discal spot pale gray, faint or absent; terminal band pale gray, narrow or absent.

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (1)
Range
western United States: Minnesota and Illinois to Texas, west to California, north to Idaho
Season
adults fly from April to October (2 broods)
Food
larvae probably feed on Dotted Blazingstar (Liatris punctata) in the eastern portion of the range
Life Cycle
probably two generations per year
Remarks
The image labelled S. tertia by Paul Opler on the butterfliesandmoths.org site is presumably S. albafascia due to its wider white medial band on the forewing, and the large dark discal spot on the hindwing (see PDF doc in Internet References)
See Also
Schinia albafascia FW has wider white medial band, and HW discal spot is large and black
Print References
Pogue, M.G. & C.E. Harp 2004. A review of the Schinia tertia (Grote) species complex (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae). Zootaxa 473: 1-32 (PDF)