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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Agrotina » Copablepharon » Copablepharon spiritum - Hodges#10693.1 (Copablepharon spiritum)

Species Copablepharon spiritum - Hodges#10693.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · See Also · 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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Noctuini

Subtribe Agrotina

Genus Copablepharon

Species spiritum (Copablepharon spiritum - Hodges#10693.1)

Hodges Number

10693.1

Size

FWL = 18.0-22.0 mm (1)

Identification

creamy white or pale yellow forewing with varying amounts of black speckling and usually with black dots on the PM line; FW fringe bicolored, yellow proximally and white distally; male antenna biserrate, female antenna filiform (1)

Range

three geographically separate forms/subspecies; central Washington east to NW Colorado and south thru the Great Basin to northern Arizona and thru the Mojave Desert to SW California (1)

Habitat

open desert, dunes, sandy areas (1)

Season

June to mid-October (1)

See Also

Copablepharon albisericea which is pure white and is found south and east of range of spiritum (1)

Protogygia pallida FW dusky or creamy white and occurs east of range of C. spiritum (1)

Protogygia album is considerably smaller at FWL = 14-16 mm, has white forewing, scattered fuscous or black scales and can have a dark dot at position of reniform spot (1)

Copablepharon grandis has all yellow fringe

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

Pacific Northwest Moths

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part), Noctuinae (Part-Agrotini), Fascicle 27.1 J. Donald Lafontaine. 2004. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Steve Morris on 23 November, 2022 - 9:28am
Last updated 25 November, 2022 - 12:56pm

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