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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Melipotini » Drasteria » Drasteria howlandii - Hodges#8639 (Drasteria howlandii)

Species Drasteria howlandii - Hodges#8639

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

Drasteria howlandi - Drasteria howlandii

Moth #08-173 Bulia sp ? - Drasteria howlandii

Drasteria howlandii? - Drasteria howlandii

Drasteria sp. - Drasteria howlandii - female

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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 Erebinae

Tribe Melipotini

Genus Drasteria

Species howlandii (Drasteria howlandii - Hodges#8639)

Hodges Number

8639

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Drasteria howlandii (Grote, 1865)

Drasteria tejonica (Behr, 1870)

Syneda tejonica Behr, 1870

Syneda perfecta Hy. Edwards, 1884

Syneda howlandii Grote, 1865

Syneda exquisita Hampson, 1926

Phylogenetic Sequence # 930913

Size

Forewing length 16-17 mm. (1)

Identification

Larva - light grey with logitudinal striping, head pale with dark stripes. (1) Dyar describes all the larval instars.

Range

Washington east to Nebraska and south to northern Arizona and western Texas. (1)

Season

Adults have been found from March though September.

Food

Larvae feed on buckwheat Eriogonum sp (Polygonaceae). (1)

Remarks

Nocturnal but readily flushed during the day (1)

See Also

Drasteria mirifica

Drasteria hastingsii has redder dorsal hindwings. (2)

Drasteria stretchii is rarer and does not have the blue-gray band in the medial area like D. howlandii. (2)

Print References

Dyar, H.G. 1903. Descriptions of the larvae of some moths from Colorado. Proceedings of the USNM 25: 382-384

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl.44.11f, p.258

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

PNW Moths - species page

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

2.	Pacific Northwest Moths

Contributed by John Davis on 26 July, 2009 - 1:57pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 13 April, 2020 - 5:29pm

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