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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 » Lerina » Crimson-bodied Lichen Moth - Hodges#8246 (Lerina incarnata)

Species Lerina incarnata - Crimson-bodied Lichen Moth - Hodges#8246

Classification · Hodges Number · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Lerina incarnata - Crimson-bodied Lichen Moth - Lerina incarnata - female

L_incarnata_male - Lerina incarnata - male

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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 Lerina

Species incarnata (Crimson-bodied Lichen Moth - Hodges#8246)

Hodges Number

8246

Explanation of Names

Lerina incarnata Walker, 1854

Phylogenetic sequence # 930388

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed Lerina incarnata as the only member of the genus in America north of Mexico. (1)

Identification

Walker (1856) description.

Head above, thorax, and abdomen towards the tip thickly clothed with crimson hairs.

Palpi, proboscis, antennae, and legs black.

Thorax with a black dorsal stripe, not extending to the front.

Wings metallic bluish green, not hairy.

Range

se AZ to C. Amer.

Season

Mar-Apr (MPG data)

Food

Pine-needle Milkweed (Asclepias linaria, Asclepiadaceae) (2)

Print References

Druce, H. 1881-1990. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Lepidoptera-Heterocera. Volume III . R.H. Porter, London. Pl. 77, fig 14.

Walker, F., 1856. Lepidoptera Heterocera. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, 477.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - MPG (3)

Texas Entomology - Mike Quinn, 2007

Schmidt & Opler, Revised checklist of the tiger moths, PDF, page 17, #202.

Butterflies and Moths of North America - BAMONA (4)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

2.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Butterflies of North America

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 21 March, 2009 - 12:00am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman
Last updated 18 November, 2016 - 2:38pm

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