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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Oncocnemidinae » Copanarta » Copanarta aurea - Hodges#10169 (Copanarta aurea)

Species Copanarta aurea - Hodges#10169

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

Moth, Copanarta aurea? - Copanarta aurea

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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 Oncocnemidinae

Genus Copanarta

Species aurea (Copanarta aurea - Hodges#10169)

Hodges Number

10169

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Copanarta aurea (Grote(1), 1879)

Hadena aurea Grote, 1879

syn. Oncocnemis nigerrima Smith, 1903

Phylogenetic sequence # 931781

Size

Wingspan about 19-21 mm.

Range

Southern California to central Texas. (2), (3)

See Also

Sympistis corusca is considerably larger, it's reniform spot is not as round or as white, and does not have noticeably complete, fine, dark AM/PM lines.

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1879. On Lithophane and new Noctuidae. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 5: 205.

Grote, A.R., 1882. New moths, chiefly from Arizona. The Canadian Entomologist, 14(1): 19.

Smith, J.B., 1903. New noctuids for 1903, no. 2, with notes on Mamestra and Scotogramma. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 11(1): 10.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

3.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by tom murray on 25 January, 2009 - 1:26pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ron M., Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 8 April, 2023 - 8:46pm

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