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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 » Heliocheilus » Heliocheilus toralis - Hodges#11076 (Heliocheilus toralis)

Species Heliocheilus toralis - Hodges#11076

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Moth # 07-262 - Heliocheilus toralis pink and yellow - Heliocheilus toralis moth - Heliocheilus toralis Possible Heliochielus toralis. - Heliocheilus toralis Heliocheilus toralis Heliocheilus toralis Arizona Moth - Heliocheilus toralis Arizona Moth - Heliocheilus toralis
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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 Heliocheilus
Species toralis (Heliocheilus toralis - Hodges#11076)
Hodges Number
11076
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Heliocheilus toralis (Grote, 1881)
Botis toralis Grote, 1881
Ardisura grandis Druce, 1890 (516)
Prothymia rosaria Barnes, 1904
Pyrausta toralis
* phylogenetic sequence #932060
Size
Wingspan about 23-26 mm.
Range
Texas west to Arizona. Type specimen Socorro, New Mexico.
Food
Larvae likely feed on grasses. (1)
Print References
Dyar, H.G. 1907. Botis toralis Grote. Journal New York Entomological Society 15(2): 104
Grote, A.R. 1881. Moths collected by Prof. Snow in New Mexico, with list of Eudriini. Papilio 1(9): 178
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Works Cited
1.Revised status of Chloridea Duncan and (Westwood), 1841, for the Heliothis virescens species group
Pogue, Michael G. . 2013. Systematic Entomology 38, 523–542.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 21 February, 2008 - 9:55pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 27 November, 2016 - 10:56am

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