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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

Dolocucullia dentilinea 10188? - Dolocucullia dentilinea - female

Arizona Moth for ID - 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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