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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Nystaleinae » Elasmia » Elasmia packardii - Hodges#7949 (Elasmia packardii)

Species Elasmia packardii - Hodges#7949

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Hippia packardii 13 day old larva - Elasmia packardii

Texas SE Gulf Coast - Elasmia packardii - male

Elasmia packardii - Hodges#7949 - Elasmia packardii - male

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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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)

Subfamily Nystaleinae

Genus Elasmia

Species packardii (Elasmia packardii - Hodges#7949)

Hodges Number

7949

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Elasmia packardii (Morrison, 1875) (1)

Edema packardii Morrison, 1875

Hippia packardii

Phylogenetic sequence # 930125

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of Alpheus Spring Packard Jr. (2)

Numbers

Three species of Elasmia are found in America north of Mexico.

Elasmia cave

Elasmia mandela santanna

Elasmia packardii

Size

Forewing length: (1)

♂ 12-15 mm.

♀ 13-16 mm.

Identification

Genitalia:

♀

♂

Range

Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. (1)

Season

Adults fly April to early October. (1)

Food

Larval host plants include: (1)

western soapberry Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii (Sapindaceae).

Mexican buckeye Ungnadia speciosa (Sapindaceae).

See Also

Symmerista species have larger and more conspicuous whitish patch along costa of forewing.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Works Cited

1.	A new species of Elasmia Möschler from New Mexico and Texas, and a new subspecies of Elasmia mandela (Druce) from .... Eric Metzler, Edward Knudson. 2011. Zookeys 149: 51-67.

2.	Biographical memoir of Alpheus Spring Packard Jr., LL.D. (1839 – 1905) T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. The National Academy of Sciences 9: 179-236.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 20 January, 2008 - 2:04am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Chuck Sexton, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 13 November, 2023 - 12:03pm

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