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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) » Brown Flower Moth - Hodges#11140 (Schinia saturata)

Species Schinia saturata - Brown Flower Moth - Hodges#11140

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

Brown Flower Moth - Hodges#11140 - Schinia saturata

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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 saturata (Brown Flower Moth - Hodges#11140)

Hodges Number

11140

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia saturata (Grote(1), 1874)

Lygranthoecia saturata Grote, 1874 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932135 (3)

Size

Wingspan about 25-26 mm.

Identification

Grote (1874) original description as Lygranthoecia saturata is in the print references.

Range

Florida(4) to Arizona(5), north to South Dakota and New York. (6)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

The flight period averages May to November, with a peak in August. (7)

Food

Several known host plants.

Heterotheca subaxillaris (Camphorweed) (Texas)

Pityopsis graminifolia (Narrowleaf silkgrass) (Florida)

See Also

Schinia rivulosa

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1874. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, p. 74.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (7)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (8)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (9)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

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

3.	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 .

4.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

5.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

6.	Moths of Dallas County, Texas

7.	North American Moth Photographers Group

8.	Butterflies of North America

9.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 August, 2009 - 9:01pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, JohnMaxwell22
Last updated 5 April, 2014 - 3:09pm

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