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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Spilosomina » Hypercompe » Hypercompe suffusa - Hodges#8149 (Hypercompe suffusa)

Species Hypercompe suffusa - Hodges#8149

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

Gray fuzzy c-pillar - Hypercompe suffusa

Hypercompe suffusa? - Hypercompe suffusa

unknown caterpillar - Hypercompe suffusa

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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 Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Spilosomina

Genus Hypercompe

Species suffusa (Hypercompe suffusa - Hodges#8149)

Hodges Number

8149

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hypercompe suffusa (Schaus, 1889)

Ecpantheria suffusa (Schaus, 1889)

Arachnis suffusa Schaus, 1889

Synonym

Arachnis semiclara Stretch, 1906

Phylogenetic sequence # 930325 (1)

Size

Schaus (1889) listed the wingspan ♂ 42 mm, ♀ 54 mm.

Range

Southern Arizona to western Texas. (2)

Food

Polyphagous. (3)

Life Cycle

Dyar (1894) reported the larva overwinters in a loose cocoon and pupates in spring.

Print References

Dyar, H.G., 1894. On the larva of two species of Arachnis. The Canadian Entomologist 26(11): 308-309

Schaus Jr., W., 1889. Descriptions of new species of Mexican Heterocera. Entomologica Americana 5(10-11): 190-191

Watson, A., 1977. A review of the suffusa species-group of Hypercompe Hübner, with a description of a new species affecting Gossypium hirsutum L. (Cotton). Revista Agr. Univ. Centr. Venezuela 9: 137-147 (abstract)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (5)

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Tiger Moths and Woolly Bears: behavior, ecology, and evolution of the Arctiidae. William E. Conner (ed.). 2009. Oxford University Press.

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 3 September, 2008 - 10:18am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 19 September, 2014 - 9:52am

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