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Species No-genus gracillinea - [No genus] gracillinea - Hodges#10043

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Oxycnemis - No-genus gracillinea Moth #08-174 - No-genus gracillinea Arizona Moth - No-genus gracillinea moth, silver - No-genus gracillinea moth - No-genus gracillinea Oxycnemis gracillinea - No-genus gracillinea Acrolophus sp. ? - No-genus gracillinea This might be a specimen of fine-lined sallow, Catabena lineolata, from southeastern Arizona? - No-genus gracillinea
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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 No-genus
Species gracillinea ([No genus] gracillinea - Hodges#10043)

Hodges Number

10043

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Transferred to Oncocnemidinae without generic placement from Oxycnemis (Amphipyrinae) by Keegan et al. (2019) (1).
Oxycnemis gracillinea (Grote, 1881)
Oncocnemis gracillinea Grote, 1881
Oxycnemis gracillima (misspelling)
Oxycnemis yuma Smith, 1907
* phylogenetic sequence #931612

Size

Wingspan about 17-19 mm.

Print References

Grote, A. R. 1881. New moths, chiefly from Arizona. The Canadian Entomologist 13(11): 231
Smith, J. B. 1907. New species of Noctuidae for 1907, no.1. Trans. American Ent. Soc. 33(2-3): 138-139 (syn. Oxycnemis yuma)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Works Cited

1.Towards resolving and redefining Amphipyrinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae): a massively polyphyletic taxon
Kevin L. Keegan, James Donald Lafontaine, Niklas Wahlberg, David L. Wagner. 2019. Systematic Entomology, 44: 451-464.
Contributed by Ron M. on 4 March, 2009 - 4:51am
Additional contributions by Chris Grinter, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 10 March, 2019 - 8:09pm

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