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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Tarache » Tarache bilimeki - Hodges#9157 (Tarache bilimeki)

Species Tarache bilimeki - Hodges#9157

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · 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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)

Tribe Acontiini

Genus Tarache

Species bilimeki (Tarache bilimeki - Hodges#9157)

Hodges Number

9157

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tarache bilimeki Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

Acontia bilimeki Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

Acontia disconnecta Smith, 1903 (1)

Tarache bilimeci Hampson, 1910

Phylogenetic sequence # 931370 (2)

Size

Wingspan 23 mm.

Identification

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)

Range

Southern California to western Texas and Mexico. (4), (5), (6)

Season

Adults are most common from April to October.

Food

Larval host unknown.

See Also

Tarache axendra

Tarache huachuca

Compare on the plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874. Reise Oesterreischischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde, Zoology, 2(2): pl. 108, fig. 29.

Hampson, G.F. 1910. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the collection of the British Museum, 10: 733.

Smith, J.B. 1903, New Noctuids for 1903, No. 4, with notes on certain described species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 29(3): 212. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (7)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Noctuidae of North America - nearctica.com (4)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (5)

Works Cited

1.	New noctuids for 1903, No. 4, with notes on certain described species John B. Smith. 1903. Transactions of The American Entomological Society 29(3): 191-224.

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.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

4.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

5.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

6.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

7.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 14 October, 2009 - 5:29pm
Additional contributions by Chris Grinter
Last updated 14 April, 2014 - 7:29pm

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