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Genus Hemeroplanis

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Moth # 07-145 - Hemeroplanis historialis gold moth - Hemeroplanis incusalis Azeta schausi? - Hemeroplanis punitalis moth - Hemeroplanis historialis Hemeroplanis scopulepes Black-dotted Hemeroplanis moth - Hemeroplanis habitalis moth - Hemeroplanis scopulepes Hemeroplanis rectalis
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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

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hemeroplanis Hübner, 1818
synonyms
Scopelopus (Hypeninae) Stephens, 1829
Sanacea Walker, [1866]

Numbers

There are 11 named Hemeroplanis species in America north of Mexico.(1), (2)

Print References

Smith, 1907. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 33: 363 (3) (species descriptions and key)

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.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.
3.Revision of the Species of Pleonectyptera Grt. [Grote]
John B Smith. 1907. Transactions of The American Entomological Society 33: 363-379.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 28 June, 2005 - 6:52am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 24 September, 2016 - 5:22am

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