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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Phytometrini » Hemeroplanis » Hemeroplanis historialis - Hodges#8472 (Hemeroplanis historialis)

Species Hemeroplanis historialis - Hodges#8472

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

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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 Boletobiinae

Tribe Phytometrini

Genus Hemeroplanis

Species historialis (Hemeroplanis historialis - Hodges#8472)

Hodges Number

8472

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hemeroplanis historialis (Grote(1), 1882)

Pleonectyptera historialis Grote, 1882

Synonyms

Pleonectyptera finitima Smith, 1893 (2)(3)

Pleonectyptera secundalis Smith, 1907 (2)(3)

Pleonectyptera tenalis Smith, 1907 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence #930705

Numbers

There are 11 named Hemeroplanis species in America north of Mexico.(4), (3)

Range

California to western Texas, Oklahoma and Oregon. (5)

Life Cycle

Larvae pupate underground in a cocoon (Southwest Moths).

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1882. New moths. The Canadian Entomologist, 14(10): 188

Smith, 1907. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 33: 378 (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Pacific Northwest Moths (6)

Southwest Moths

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	Revision of the Species of Pleonectyptera Grt. [Grote] John B Smith. 1907. Transactions of The American Entomological Society 33: 363-379.

3.	Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. J. Donald Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt . 2013. ZooKeys 264: 227-236.

4.	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 .

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	Pacific Northwest Moths

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by tom murray on 22 July, 2008 - 4:40pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 24 September, 2016 - 5:02am

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