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Species Lemmeria digitalis - Fingered Lemmeria - Hodges#9429

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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 Apameini
Genus Lemmeria
Species digitalis (Fingered Lemmeria - Hodges#9429)
Hodges Number
9429
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lemmeria digitalis (Grote 1882)
Phylogenetic sequence # 932415
Numbers
The only species in the genus for America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
wingspan about 24 mm
Food
Sedges
Life Cycle
Larva; adult
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group(2)
Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
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.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 22 September, 2007 - 9:09am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor
Last updated 10 October, 2017 - 2:17pm

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