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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) » Goldenrod Flower Moth - Hodges#11177 (Schinia nundina)

Species Schinia nundina - Goldenrod Flower Moth - Hodges#11177

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

Goldenrod Flower Moth - Hodges#11177 - Schinia nundina

Please help us to identify this moth. - Schinia nundina

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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 nundina (Goldenrod Flower Moth - Hodges#11177)

Hodges Number

11177

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia nundina (Drury, 1773)

Phalaena nundina Drury, 1773

syn: Phytometria nigrirena (Haworth, 1809) (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932156 (2)

Numbers

Size

Wingspan about 26 mm.

Identification

Adult: FW white with bands of pale green or brownish-green shading • Small, black orbicular spot • Hourglass-shaped reniform is boldly outlined in black • Terminal line is series of blackish dots (3)

Range

Found east of a line from Arizona to Minnesota and Nova Scotia. (4)

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Season

Most records are July through October. (4)

Food

Larval host is Aster and Solidago.

See Also

Schinia arefacta

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Drury, 1773. Illust. Nat. Hist. Exot. Insects. 36, pl. 18, fig. 5. online

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Noctuoidea of Canada - J. T. Troubridge & J. D. Lafontaine

Works Cited

1.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

2.	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 .

3.	Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by tom murray on 9 August, 2005 - 7:53pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 5 April, 2014 - 3:33pm

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