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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cuculliinae » Dolocucullia » Dolocucullia dentilinea - Hodges#10188 (Dolocucullia dentilinea)

Species Dolocucullia dentilinea - Hodges#10188

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Dolocucullia dentilinea 10188? - Dolocucullia dentilinea - female Dolocucullia dentilinea Noctuidae - Dolocucullia dentilinea Arizona Moth for ID - Dolocucullia dentilinea Arizona Moth - Dolocucullia dentilinea Arizona Moth - Dolocucullia dentilinea Arizona Moth - Dolocucullia dentilinea Lepidoptera - Dolocucullia dentilinea
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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 Cuculliinae
Genus Dolocucullia
Species dentilinea (Dolocucullia dentilinea - Hodges#10188)
Hodges Number
10188
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dolocucullia dentilinea (Smith, 1899)
Cucullia dentilinea (Smith, 1899)
Xylina dentilinea Smith, 1899
Phylogenetic sequence # 931540 (1)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed two species of the genus in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
forewing length ~16.84 mm (2)
Range
Rocky Mountain region as far west as eastern Oregon and south to Arizona (3)
Also common to prairie regions of Nebraska (2)
Season
April, May, June (2)
Remarks
page creation based on Lars Crabo's identification of this image (which has since been determined to be a new species of Dolocucullia, that is very similar in appearance to dentilinea)
Print References
Poole, R.W., 1995. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 26.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 72; pl. 3.12-14. (2)
Internet References
Pacific Northwest Moths (4)
Moth Photographers Group (5)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
presence in California; list of 13 specimen records with dates and locations (U. of California at Berkeley)
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.The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 26.1. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae: Cuculliinae, Stiriinae, Psaphidinae.
Robert W. Poole. 1995. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
3.Six new species and one new subspecies of noctuid moths from western United States of America and Mexico...
Crabo, L.G., P.C. Hammond, T. Mustelin & D.L. Wikle. 2018. ZooKeys, 788: 201-239.
4.Pacific Northwest Moths
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 7 July, 2008 - 10:41pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Steve Morris
Last updated 15 April, 2023 - 4:33pm

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