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Species Tarache lucasi - Hodges#9148

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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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)
Tribe Acontiini
Genus Tarache
Species lucasi (Tarache lucasi - Hodges#9148)
Hodges Number
9148
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tarache lucasi (Smith, 1900)
Acontia lucasi Smith, 1900
Acontia aniluna Smith, 1905
Acontia pima Smith, 1905
Phylogenetic sequence # 931373
Explanation of Names
Named for Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico, where it was first collected.
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included 34 species of the genus Tarache in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
The forewing length averages 10-12 mm.
Identification
Range
Western Texas to southern California. (2)
Season
The adults are most common from June to September. (3)
Food
BugGuide record of larva on mallow.
See Also
Tarache lucasi
Print References
Smith, J.B. 1900. Contributions towards a monograph of the Noctuidae of boreal North America, revision of the species of Acontia Ochs. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 27: 68.
Smith, J.B. 1905. New species of Noctuidae for 1905, No. 3. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 8(4): 209.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (5)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (6)
Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com) (7)
Larval images at Southwest Moths. Scroll down to look at penultimate larvae.
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.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
5.Butterflies of North America
6.Moths of Southeast Arizona
7.Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 September, 2009 - 11:22pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Chris Grinter, Randy Hardy
Last updated 22 August, 2016 - 7:39pm

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