Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


Previous events


TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Callistege diagonalis - Hodges#8741

Euclidia diagonalis - Callistege diagonalis Moth - Callistege diagonalis Callistege diagonalis Callistege diagonalis? - Callistege diagonalis Callistege diagonalis? - Callistege diagonalis Callistege diagonalis? - Callistege diagonalis Callistege diagonalis? - Callistege diagonalis Callistege diagonalis
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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 Euclidiini
Genus Callistege
Species diagonalis (Callistege diagonalis - Hodges#8741)
Hodges Number
8741
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Callistege diagonalis (Dyar, 1898)
Formerly a synonym of Euclidia Goater et al. (2003), but reinstated as separate genus. (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930919
Numbers
There are three named species of Callistege in America north of Mexico. (1)
Identification
Side-by-side key to distinguishing the three species @ Moths of Southeastern Arizona.
Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD)
Range
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Most records are from July to August. (2)
Print References
Lafontaine J.D., & B.C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. pp. 36, 128. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - map with some distribution data, photos of living and pinned adults.