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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Euclidiini » Callistege » Callistege diagonalis - Hodges#8741 (Callistege diagonalis)

Species Callistege diagonalis - Hodges#8741

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Euclidia diagonalis - Callistege diagonalis

Callistege diagonalis? - Callistege diagonalis

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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 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.

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Ethan Kistler on 15 March, 2008 - 12:47pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Graham M
Last updated 28 October, 2013 - 11:04pm

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