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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Matigramma » Matigramma emmilta - Hodges#8680.2 (Matigramma emmilta)

Species Matigramma emmilta - Hodges#8680.2

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Matigramma
Species emmilta (Matigramma emmilta - Hodges#8680.2)
Hodges Number
8680.2
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Matigramma emmilta Franclemont, 1986
Phylogenetic sequence # 931011 (1)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 7 species of the genus in America north of Mexico.(1)
Size
Franclemont (1986) llisted the forewing length 16-19 mm. (2)
Identification
Genitalia:
♀
♂

Franclemont (1986) mentions the larvae are similar to some species of Zale.(2)
Range
Arizona to Texas.
Habitat
Mountain canyons, deserts.
Season
The flight period appears to be February to October. (3)
Food
Franclemont (1986) reported the larvae feed on Chrysothamnus sp. (rabbitbrush).
See Also
M. pulverlinea and inopinata forewings lack reddish shading, whereas M. rubrosuffusa appears more uniformly reddish (lacks contrasting gray shade lines in median and subterminal areas.
Don Lafontaine states that of the two reddish brown Matigramma in Arizona, "rubrosuffusa is common only in eastern (White Mountains) and central (Prescott area, Flagstaff) Arizona (very rare in SE AZ) and the similar emmilta is common from southeast Arizona to west Texas." (4)
Print References
Franclemont, J.G. 1986. New species and new genera of noctuids from Arizona, Texas, and Mexico: the genera Matigramma and Acritogramma (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Catocalinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 59(1): 155 (PDF)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (4)
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.New species and new genera of noctuids from Arizona, Texas, and Mexico: the genera Matigramma and Acritogramma
John G. Franclemont. 1986. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 59(1): 143-172.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.Moths of Southeast Arizona
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 17 February, 2008 - 3:15pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ron M., Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 7 December, 2023 - 6:15am

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