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Species Lithophane hemina - Hemina Pinion - Hodges#9893

Pinion - Lithophane hemina Unknown Pinion - Lithophane hemina Lithophane sp. Hemina? - Lithophane hemina Noctuidae: Lithophane hemina - Lithophane hemina Hemina Pinion Moth - Lithophane hemina Lithophane from willow - Lithophane hemina - female Hemina Pinion - Lithophane hemina Pennsylvania Moth  - Lithophane hemina
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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 Xylenini
Subtribe Xylenina
Genus Lithophane (Pinions)
Species hemina (Hemina Pinion - Hodges#9893)
Hodges Number
9893
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lithophane hemina Grote, 1874
* phylogenetic sequence #932538
Identification
Darker than disposita, longer-winged, and allied to that species in having a black basal dash, but more obscurely colored, dirty wood-brown. A black stain on submedian fold, where the median lines approximate, as in signosa. Terminally, the wing is twice stained with blackish. Spots and lines less distinctly limited than in disposita, and more as in petulea. Orbicular irregular, oblique. Reniform wide above. HW fuscous, with fine black terminal line and paler fringes. Beneath, the wings are paler, with distinct black distal spots, subirrorate; the under surface is much like disposita. There is a faint irregular line on HW, and the distal field of FW is shaded with fuscous. Thorax a little darker than FW. Abdomen dusky, with reduced tufts on the dorsum. Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr. 5 : 202
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group – species page (1)
BOLD Systems - images of DNA supported specimens (2)