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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Flower Moths (Schinia) » Schinia regia - Hodges#11166 (Schinia regia)

Species Schinia regia - Hodges#11166

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

Schinia regia - Hodges #11166 - Schinia regia

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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 Heliothinae

Genus Schinia (Flower Moths)

Species regia (Schinia regia - Hodges#11166)

Hodges Number

11166

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia regia (Strecker, 1876)

Heliothis regia (Strecker, 1876)

Porrima regia Strecker, 1876

Phylogenetic sequence # 932147(1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 123 species of the genus Schinia in America north of Mexico. (1)

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2011) added three additional species. (2)

Size

Wingspan 25-30 mm.

Range

Colorado to Nebraska, south to Texas, New Mexico

Season

Adults are most common from May to October.

Food

Larval hostplant is Vernonia texana (Texas Ironweed).

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

(3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (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.	Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico J. Donald Lafontaine & B. Christian Schmidt. 2011. Zookeys, 149.1805.

3.	A review of the Schinia regia (Strecker) species complex with a description of a new species (Lepidoptera: ... Michael G. Pogue, Charles E. Harp. 2004. Zootaxa. 473: 1-32.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 4 May, 2009 - 6:40pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 10 December, 2013 - 9:43pm

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