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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Eriopygini » Hexorthodes » Hexorthodes accurata - Hodges#10601 (Hexorthodes accurata)

Species Hexorthodes accurata - Hodges#10601

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · 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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Eriopygini
Genus Hexorthodes
Species accurata (Hexorthodes accurata - Hodges#10601)
Hodges Number
10601
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hexorthodes accurata (Hy. Edwards, 1882)
Plusia accurata Hy. Edwards, 1882
Phylogenetic sequence # 933156.1 (1)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed twelve species of the genus Hexorthodes in America north of Mexico. (1)
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2011) transferred H. euxoiformis to the genus Homorthodes leaving eleven species in the genus Hexorthodes. (2)
Size
Edwards (1882) listed a wingspan of 33 mm.
Moth Photographers Group displays one 28 mm specimen. (3)
Identification
Hindwings are semitranslucent white, with brown veins.
Range
Southern Arizona. (3)
Season
The main flight period appears to be July to September. (3)
Food
Poole (1989) mentioned Godfrey (1972) reared larvae on Brickellia (brickellbush). (4)
See Also
Hexorthodes citeria (5)
Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Edwards, H., 1882. Descriptions of new species of N. Am. Heterocera. Papilio 2(8): 127.
Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt 2011. Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 149(1805): 149, 156. (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
Lepbarcoding.org
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.Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico
J. Donald Lafontaine & B. Christian Schmidt. 2011. Zookeys, 149.1805.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
5.Two new species of Hexorthodes (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Texas and Arizona
A. Blanchard, E. . Knudson. 1985. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 87: 777-782.
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 September, 2009 - 11:43pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 December, 2013 - 5:23pm

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