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Genus Dolocucullia

Representative Images

730 Dolocucullia dentilinea 10188 - Dolocucullia poolei 1599 Dolocucullia dentilinea 10188 - Dolocucullia poolei Unknown owlet #3 - Dolocucullia poolei Dolocucullia minor Dolocucullia dentilinea 10188? - Dolocucullia dentilinea - female Dolocucullia dentilinea 10188? - Dolocucullia dentilinea - female Arizona Moth - Dolocucullia dentilinea Arizona Moth - Dolocucullia dentilinea
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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Cuculliinae
Genus Dolocucullia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

split from Cucullia in 1995 by Poole

Numbers

2 species in North America listed at All-Leps

Range

Arizona and California to Washington

Remarks

page creation based on Lars Crabo's identification of this image

Internet References

forewing and hindwing of D. dentilinea and collection site map showing presence in Arizona (All-Leps)
presence in California; list of 13 specimen records of D. dentilinea with dates and locations (U. of California at Berkeley)
presence in Oregon; list citing 110 specimens of D. dentilinea in collection, including locally collected specimens (Oregon State U.)