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Species Cobubatha lixiva - Hodges#9014

Representative Images

dark bar moth - Cobubatha lixiva dark bar moth - Cobubatha lixiva Moth - Cobubatha lixiva Moth 19 - Cobubatha lixiva Cobubatha - Cobubatha lixiva Small grey-brown moth. - Cobubatha lixiva Cobubatha lixiva 3 - Cobubatha lixiva Dark-banded Cobubatha Moth - Cobubatha lixiva
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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 Cobubathinae
Genus Cobubatha
Species lixiva (Cobubatha lixiva - Hodges#9014)

Hodges Number

9014

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cobubatha lixiva (Grote(1), 1882)
Tripudia lixiva Grote, 1882
Tripudia basicinerea Grote, 1882
Eustrotia lixinites (Dyar, 1912)
Phylogenetic sequence # 931275 (2)

Size

Wingspan about 15 mm.

Range

Texas; Arizona. (3)

Season

The flight period appears to be March to September. (3)

Print References

Dyar, H.G. 1912. Descriptions of new species and genera of Lepidoptera, chiefly from Mexico. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 42: 74.
Grote(1), A.R. 1882. New moths. The Canadian Entomologist, 14(9): 173

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
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.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 July, 2009 - 1:00pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Chris Grinter, Randy Hardy
Last updated 27 September, 2014 - 6:35pm

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