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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Scolecocampinae » Sigela » Sigela brauneata - Hodges#8432 (Sigela brauneata)

Species Sigela brauneata - Hodges#8432

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

Sigela brauneata - Hodges #8432 - Sigela brauneata

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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 Scolecocampinae

Genus Sigela

Species brauneata (Sigela brauneata - Hodges#8432)

Hodges Number

8432

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sigela brauneata (Swett, 1913) (1)

Quandara brauneata (Swett, 1913)

Eois brauneata Swett, 1913

Phylogenetic sequence # 930657

Numbers

There are four named species of Sigela in America north of Mexico. (1)

Identification

Description by Pogue, 2012. (PDF) (2)

The original description as Eois brauneata Swett, is available online in the print references below.

Range

Indiana to Pennsylvania and south to Texas and northern Florida. (3), (4)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Adults are most often reported from April to September. (4)

Pogue 2012 reports mid-May to July for Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (2)

Food

Larval hosts unknown. (2)

See Also

Some Eupithecia may look similar.

Compare to other related species on the archived photos of living moths and pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Pougue, M.G. 2012. Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. figs. 52, map 25, p. 27. (2)

Swett, 1913. Canadian Entomologist. 45 (1), p. (25)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group(4)

BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System(5)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)

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.	Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Michael G. Pogue. 2012. Zootaxa 3153: 1–31 .

3.	South Carolina Moth Species

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 27 September, 2009 - 3:07pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 25 June, 2018 - 1:03pm

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