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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Catocalini » Underwings (Catocala) » Catocala illecta - Hodges#8840 (Catocala illecta)

Species Catocala illecta - Hodges#8840

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Catocalini
Genus Catocala (Underwings)
Species illecta (Catocala illecta - Hodges#8840)
Hodges Number
8840
Other Common Names
Magdalen Underwing (1)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Catocala illecta Walker, [1858] (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Catocala magdalena Strecker, 1874 (7), (8)
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet from Latin meaning "enticed, seduced."
Size
Wingspan 60-70 mm. (1)
Range
Ontario south to South Carolina, west to Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Michigan. (1)
Food
Larval hosts include: (9), (1)
lead plant (Amorpha canescens)
honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
Life Cycle
Larva; adult
Print References
Barnes, Wm. & J.H. McDunnough, 1918. Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1): p.34; Pl.7, f.13; Pl.12, f.10 (larva). (5)
Walker, F., [1858]. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XIII - Noctuidae. British Museum (Natural History), p.1205. (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (10)
Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (1)
Francis Walker (1809-1874)
Works Cited
1.Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala
2.List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XIII - Noctuidae.
Francis Walker. 1857. British Museum (Natural History), p.984-1236.
3.On the North American species of Catocala.
Augustus Radcliffe Grote. 1872. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4: 1-20.
4.The genus Catocala.
George. D. Hulst. 1884. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 7(1): 14-56.
5.Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala.
William Barnes, James Halliday McDunnough. 1918. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1).
6.Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) IV. Nomenclatorial stabilization of the ....
Lawrence Gall, David Hawks. 2010. Zookeys 39: 37-83.
7.Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations (v. 8-11)
Herman Strecker. 1874. Owen's Steam Book & Job Printing.
8.Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). I.
Gall, Lawrence F. & David C. Hawks. 1990. Fieldiana. Zoology. 59: 1-16.
9.HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database
10.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 29 August, 2009 - 10:33am
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 March, 2018 - 9:55pm

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