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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) » Phaegopterina » Cycnia » Oregon Cycnia - Hodges#8231 (Cycnia oregonensis)

Species Cycnia oregonensis - Oregon Cycnia - Hodges#8231

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
caterpillar - Cycnia oregonensis Oregon Cycnia - Hodges#8231 - Cycnia oregonensis - male Erebidae: Cycnia oregonensis - Cycnia oregonensis - male Erebidae: Cycnia oregonensis - Cycnia oregonensis - male Oregon Cycnia - Cycnia oregonensis Cycnia oregonensis - Oregon Cycnia - Cycnia oregonensis - male Oregon Cycnia - Cycnia oregonensis - female Oregon Cycnia caterpillar - Cycnia oregonensis
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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 Phaegopterina
Genus Cycnia
Species oregonensis (Oregon Cycnia - Hodges#8231)
Hodges Number
8231
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cycnia oregonensis (Stretch, [1874])
*Two subspecies are recognized.(1), (2)
Cycnia oregonensis oregonensis (Stretch, [1874])
Cycnia oregonensis tristis Crabo, 2013
* Phylogenetic sequence #930405
Size
wingspan about 45 mm
Identification
forewing pale whitish-gray with white wing veins and no yellow along costa; top of head yellow; dorsal surface of abdomen orangish-yellow with large black spot on each segment.
Range
Southern Canada and all of United States except southeastern states.
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Habitat
Fields, meadows, prairie grasslands.
Season
adults fly from April to August
Food
Larval hosts include:
Apocynum cannabinum L. ( Indian Hemp)
Apocynum androsaemifolium L. (spreading dogbane)
Life Cycle
1.larva 2.adult


PDF of life cycle by MJ Hatfield
See Also
Cycnia tenera forewing has yellow along the costa.


Cycnia inopinatus forewing has yellow at base of costa.

Cycnia collaris
Print References
Crabo, Lars G., et. al. 2013. Five new species and three new subspecies of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Northwestern North America, with notes on Chytolita Grote (Erebidae) and Hydraecia Guenée (Noctuidae).(1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Works Cited
1.Five new species and three new subspecies of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from .....
Lars G. Crabo, Melanie Davis, Paul Hammond, Tomas Mustelin, Jon Shepard. 2013. ZooKeys 264: 85–123.
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.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 17 July, 2005 - 11:03pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, anitagould, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Steve Morris
Last updated 7 February, 2022 - 4:47pm

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