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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Flower Moths (Schinia) » Schinia accessa - Hodges#11150 (Schinia accessa)

Species Schinia accessa - Hodges#11150

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Schinia accessa - Hodges #11150 - Schinia accessa

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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 Heliothinae

Genus Schinia (Flower Moths)

Species accessa (Schinia accessa - Hodges#11150)

Hodges Number

11150

Other Common Names

Angle-lined flower moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia accessa Smith, 1906

Schinia velutina Barnes & McDunnough, 1912

Listed by Hodges as #11190 - Schinia separata (Grote).(1)

Size

Wingspan: 24-29 mm.

Identification

The original description of Schinia accessa Smith, is available online in the print references.

Range

Western Great Plains from Canada to Texas and west to California. (2), (3)

Season

The adults are most common from August to October. (4)

Food

The larval host plants are of the genus Artemisia including;

Artemisia tridentata (Big sagebrush)

See Also

Schinia trifascia

Print References

Smith, J.B., 1906. New Noctuidae for 1906. Journal of New York Entomological Society, 14: 25.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

North Dakota State University - Moths of North Dakota

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

3.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 September, 2009 - 5:07pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 17 June, 2018 - 10:18pm

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