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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) » Slender Flower Moth - Hodges#11147 (Schinia gracilenta)

Species Schinia gracilenta - Slender Flower Moth - Hodges#11147

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Noctuidae: Schinia gracilenta - Schinia gracilenta

Schinia gracilenta – Slender Flower Moth - Schinia gracilenta

Noctuidae: Schinia gracilentia - Schinia gracilenta

Slender Flower Moth - Schinia gracilenta

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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 gracilenta (Slender Flower Moth - Hodges#11147)

Hodges Number

11147

Other Common Names

Iva Flower Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia gracilenta Hübner, 1818

syn. Schinia bifascia [Hodges #11142].

Phylogenetic sequence # 932092 (1)

Range

Massachusetts to Florida(2), west to Texas(3), north to Nebraska

Common in eastern and north central Texas (4)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Habitat

wet prairie

Season

Records of adults from May to October, with August to September the peak. (5)

Food

larvae feed on marshelder (Iva spp.) and possibly False Boneset (Brickellia eupatorioides)

Life Cycle

one generation per year

Remarks

page creation based on Chuck Harp's identification of this image

See Also

S. rivulosa

S. thoreaui

In both the forewing AM line is more pointed or sharply bent in the middle

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

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.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

3.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

4.	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.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 11 September, 2007 - 9:28pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 5 April, 2014 - 3:45pm

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