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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) » Leucaniini » Leucania » Leucania oaxacana - Hodges#10451 (Leucania oaxacana)

Species Leucania oaxacana - Hodges#10451

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · 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 Leucaniini

Genus Leucania

Species oaxacana (Leucania oaxacana - Hodges#10451)

Hodges Number

10451

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Leucania oaxacana Schaus, 1898

Synonym

Leucania complicata Strecker, 1898

Phylogenetic sequence # 932952

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 31 species of the genus Leucania in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Schaus (1898) listed a wingspan of 33 mm.

Range

California(2) to central Texas(3); Mexico.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some collection dates.

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates at Moth Photographers Group. (4)

Print References

Schaus, W. 1898. New species of Noctuidae from tropical America. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 6: 115.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Robert W. Poole's nearctica.com (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

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.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

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

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 9 November, 2009 - 9:52pm
Last updated 26 November, 2013 - 12:26am

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