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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Stiriinae » Stiriini » Cirrhophanus » Cirrhophanus dyari - Hodges#9765 (Cirrhophanus dyari)

Species Cirrhophanus dyari - Hodges#9765

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

9765 – Cirrhophanus dyari - Cirrhophanus dyari

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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 Stiriinae

Tribe Stiriini

Genus Cirrhophanus

Species dyari (Cirrhophanus dyari - Hodges#9765)

Hodges Number

9765

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cirrhophanus dyari – Cockerell, 1899

* phylogenetic sequence # 931680

Numbers

Three Cirrhophanus species are found in North America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Forewing length 16-17 mm.(2)

Range

Southeastern Arizona to western Texas.(2)

Also reported in central Texas as far east as Kerr, County.

Habitat

Adults of this group are often seen resting on the flowers of the host plant.(2)

Season

Adults fly August through September.(2)

Life Cycle

unknown

See Also

Basilodes chrysopis

Basilodes pepita

Cirrhophanus triangulifer

Cirrhophanus pretiosa - pinned adults at Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, Moths of Western North America, p. 289, pl. 52.10(2)

Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 57.(1)

Poole, R. W., 1995. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 26.1: p. 126; pl. 4.16-17.(3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

nearctica.com

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

3.	The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 26.1. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae: Cuculliinae, Stiriinae, Psaphidinae. Robert W. Poole. 1995. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 19 August, 2009 - 3:27pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 4 December, 2013 - 1:19am

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