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Species Isogona scindens - Hodges#8498

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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 Boletobiinae
Tribe Phytometrini
Genus Isogona
Species scindens (Isogona scindens - Hodges#8498)
Hodges Number
8498
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Isogona scindens (Walker, 1858)
Ophiusa scindens Walker, 1858
Synonym
Poaphila ordinans Walker, 1858
Phylogenetic sequence # 930739
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 7 species of the genus Isogona in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Wingspan about 28 mm.
Identification
Range
Tropical species that ranges to Texas and southern Florida. (2)
Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems(4)
The Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the French Antilles
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 Dallas County, Texas
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 29 April, 2009 - 8:49am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 24 May, 2023 - 9:07am

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