Species Acritogramma metaleuca - Hodges#8682

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · 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 Acritogramma

Species metaleuca (Acritogramma metaleuca - Hodges#8682)

Hodges Number

8682

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

original combination Matigramma metaleuca Hampson, 1913 (description, pg.329)

transfered to new genus Acritogramma Franclemont, 1986(1)

* phylogenetic sequence # 931013

Numbers

one of 2 species in this genus in North America listed at All-Leps

Size

forewing length 12-13 mm(1)

Identification

Adults - forewing medium gray with black AM and PM lines and light gray shading immediately beyond those lines; PM line has V-shaped or U-shaped jog near middle, and its upper portion is thickened and does not reach costa; terminal line black, wavy; fringe scalloped, pale basally, darker distally; hindwing brownish-gray with dark wavy terminal line

Range

California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and into Mexico

Season

adults fly from March to at least June

See Also

Heteranassa, but easily distinguished from this genus by the conspicuous spines on the mesothoracic tibia and by the absence of dorsal tufts on the abdominal segments

Internet References

pinned adult image copied from CDFA site (Moth Photographers Group)

presence in Arizona; list of specimen by Wielgus in March 2007 [search on genus "Acritogramma"] (Lepidopterists Society Season Summary, U. of Florida)

presence in California; list of 4 specimens with dates and locations (U. of California at Berkeley)

presence in Utah; list (Joel Johnson, Utah Lepidopterists Society)

author, date, and original genus (Markku Savela, FUNET)

Works Cited

1.	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.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 6 March, 2008 - 12:19am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 18 June, 2012 - 8:28pm

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