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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Lichen Moths (Lithosiini) » Cisthenina » Cisthene » Cisthene juanita - Hodges#8076 (Cisthene juanita)

Species Cisthene juanita - Hodges#8076

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · 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 Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Lithosiini (Lichen Moths)

Subtribe Cisthenina

Genus Cisthene

Species juanita (Cisthene juanita - Hodges#8076)

Hodges Number

8076

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cisthene juanita Barnes & Benjamin, 1925

* phylogenetic sequence #930193

Numbers

Twenty Cisthene species are found in North America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Forewing length 9-11 mm(1)

Range

Southern Arizona

Season

Adults fly (late July) August-September (to mid-October; one December record) (BOLD)(1)

Food

Larvae feed on algae and lichens, adults have been found during the day on flowers of seep-willow Baccharis salicifolia(2)

Print References

Barnes, W. & F. H. Benjamin (1925) Notes and new species (Lepidoptera). Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 27 (6): 123

Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 15(1)

Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler (2009) Moths of Western North America; p. 265, pl. 46.20.(2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with collection map and photos of pinned adults.

Moths of Southeastern Arizona - photograph of pinned adult.

Butterflies and Moths of North America - species account with photograph of pinned adult and range map.

Moth Photographers Group - pinned adult and photos of related species.

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.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 1 September, 2009 - 1:28am
Additional contributions by Chuck Sexton, Randy Hardy
Last updated 19 October, 2017 - 3:57pm

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