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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Dudusinae » Dudusini » Crinodes » Crinodes biedermani - Hodges#8028 (Crinodes biedermani)

Species Crinodes biedermani - Hodges#8028

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Biedermann's Prominent - Crinodes biedermani

Caterpillar--some type of sphingid? - Crinodes biedermani

Larva with aberrant color - Crinodes biedermani

large long tailed moth - Crinodes biedermani

Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)

Subfamily Dudusinae

Tribe Dudusini

Genus Crinodes

Species biedermani (Crinodes biedermani - Hodges#8028)

Hodges Number

8028

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Crinodes biedermani Skinner, 1905

Astylis biedermani

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of Charles Robert Biederman (1839-1932), who reared the species.

Size

Forewing length 3.5-4.3 cm. (1)

Range

Southern Arizona and Mexico.

Season

Adults fly in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona late July - early August. (1)

Food

Larvae feed on Fendler's Ceanothus and perhaps other species of Ceanothus. (2)

Print References

Skinner, H. 1905. A new Crinodes from Arizona (Lepidoptera, Heterocera, Notodontidae). Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 16: 209. pl.9

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD Systems

pinned adult and live larva images by various photographers, plus larval foodplant (Bruce Walsh, Moths of Southeastern Arizona)

US distribution map showing presence in southern Arizona only (butterfliesandmoths.org)

Works Cited

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

2.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 26 September, 2008 - 9:45am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Randy Hardy
Last updated 15 January, 2015 - 4:44pm

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