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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Litter Moths (Herminiinae) » Zanclognatha » Dark Zanclognatha - Hodges#8347 (Zanclognatha obscuripennis)

Species Zanclognatha obscuripennis - Dark Zanclognatha - Hodges#8347

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Hodges#8347 - Zanclognatha obscuripennis

Early Zanclognatha Moth - Zanclognatha obscuripennis

Pennsylvania Moth - Zanclognatha obscuripennis

A beauty from last night. ID, please. - Zanclognatha obscuripennis

Texas SE Gulf Coast - Zanclognatha obscuripennis

Dark Zanclognatha Moth - Hodges#8347 - Dorsal - Zanclognatha obscuripennis

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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 Herminiinae (Litter Moths)

Genus Zanclognatha

Species obscuripennis (Dark Zanclognatha - Hodges#8347)

Hodges Number

8347

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Zanclognatha obscuripennis (Grote, 1872)

Herminia obscuripennis Grote, 1872

Polypogon obscuripennis

Size

Wingspan 22-32mm. (1)

Identification

Adult - AM line straight across most of wing from below costa (Forbes' Key). PM line dark, edged outwardly with yellow (Forbes and Covell).

Larvae: See "Preliminary key to Zanclognatha larvae" (2)

Range

New York to Missouri, southward to Florida and Louisiana. (1)

Season

April-June. Two Broods. (1)

See Also

Zanclognatha cruralis - As of Jan 2015, cannot be separated using photos. See comments here and here.

Zanclognatha jacchusalis has an obviously waved am. line and a straight, yellow pm. line (which may have a few dark scales edging it). (1)

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1872. Descriptions of North American Noctuidae, No. 2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 4: 98.

Internet References

Pinned and Live Images at MPG

Pinned Images at BOLD

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	A new Zanclognatha from eastern North America and a preliminary key to the larvae of the genus... Wagner, D.L. & T.L. McCabe. 2011. ZooKeys 149: 89-101.

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 2 September, 2008 - 9:03pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Will Cook, Randy Hardy
Last updated 25 January, 2015 - 4:47pm

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