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Species Tripudia damozela - Hodges#9002.2

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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 Cobubathinae

Genus Tripudia

Species damozela (Tripudia damozela - Hodges#9002.2)

Hodges Number

9002.2

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tripudia damozela (Dyar, 1914)

Cobubatha damozela Dyar, 1914 (1)

Tripuda inquaesita Barnes & Benjamin, 1924

Phylogenetic sequence # 931257 (2)

Explanation of Names

Tripudia inquaesita (Barnes & Benjamin, 1924) was replaced by Tripudia damozela (Dyar, 1914) when the two species were synonymized in Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010)(2). T. inquaesita was raised back to full species status in Lafontaine & Schmidt (2015)(3). T. damozela is reassigned to 9002.2 and T. inquaesita is again assigned to 9002, the number used in the 1983 Hodges Checklist.

Size

Wingspan 15 mm. (1)

Range

T. damozela occurs in southeastern Mexico northward in the Sierra Madre Oriental to western Texas and T. inquaesita occurs in southern Arizona and probably in the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico. Differences in maculation and barcode are noted. (3)

Season

Adults are most common from February to June. (4)

Some fall and early winter records exist.

Food

Larval host is unknown.

Remarks

Listed as Tripuda inquaesita on the California and Arizona checklists. (5)

Print References

Dyar, H.G. 1914. Descriptions of new species and genera of Lepidoptera from Mexico. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47: 380. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group(4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)(6)

Works Cited

1.	Descriptions of new species and genera of Lepidoptera from Mexico Harrison G. Dyar. 1914. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47(2054): 365-409.

2.	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 .

3.	Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico III Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt. 2015. ZooKeys 527: 127-147.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 8 October, 2009 - 12:19am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Chris Grinter, Randy Hardy
Last updated 8 February, 2018 - 9:43am

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