Species Lithophane hemina - Hemina Pinion - Hodges#9893

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

dark form hermina pinion - Lithophane hemina

Lithophane from hackberry - Lithophane hemina - male

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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

See Also

Lithophane signosa

Lithophane petulea

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – species page (1)

BOLD Systems - images of DNA supported specimens (2)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 8 January, 2010 - 8:55pm
Additional contributions by Nick Block, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy, Fyn Kynd, JoAnneRusso
Last updated 8 June, 2019 - 1:49pm

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