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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Chloridea » Subflexus Straw Moth - Hodges#11070 (Chloridea subflexa)

Species Chloridea subflexa - Subflexus Straw Moth - Hodges#11070

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

Subflexus Straw Moth - Hodges #11070 - Chloridea subflexa

Heliothinae, chew hole - Chloridea subflexa

Chloridea subflexa or virescens? - Chloridea subflexa

Subflexus Straw Moth - Chloridea subflexa

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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 Heliothinae

Genus Chloridea

Species subflexa (Subflexus Straw Moth - Hodges#11070)

Hodges Number

11070

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Heliothis subflexa (Guenée, 1852)

Aspila subflexa Guenée, 1852

Phylogenetic sequence # 932055

Size

Forewing length 13-16 mm.(1), (2)

Identification

"In Heliothis subflexa the subterminal line ends in the apex of a forewing or very close to it. In Heliothis virescens the subterminal line ends noticeably below the apex. The green color of the forewings in H. virescens also is almost always darker than in H. subflexa." - Jan Metlevski's comment on this image:

Range

American tropics. Migrants from coast to coast in the south and north to Colorado, Nebraska, Kentucky. May establish temporary populations in Arizona and southern California.(1)

Food

Larval hosts are in the potato family (Solanaceae) including species of groundcherry (Physalis) and nightshade. (2)

Life Cycle

Life Cycle images:

larva inside Ground Cherry husk; larva; pupa; adult

See Also

Heliothis virescens

Print References

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America, pl.52.32, p.291. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

2.	A revision and cladistic analysis of the Heliothis virescens species-group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) with a ... Robert W. Poole, Charles Mitter, Milton Huettel. 1993. Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 185: 1-51.

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 20 September, 2008 - 2:27pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Will Cook, Joshua Stuart Rose, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 27 October, 2016 - 3:47pm

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