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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Heliolonche » Heliolonche carolus - Hodges#11208 (Heliolonche carolus)

Species Heliolonche carolus - Hodges#11208

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Unknown Bear Canyon Moth - Heliolonche carolus

Heliolonche carolus larva - Heliolonche carolus

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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 Heliothinae

Genus Heliolonche

Species carolus (Heliolonche carolus - Hodges#11208)

Hodges Number

11208

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Heliolonche carolus McDunnough, 1936

* phylogenetic sequence #932185

Numbers

Five Heliolonche species occur in America north of Mexico. (1)

Range

Southern California and Arizona.

Food

Larval host is Rafinesquia neomexicana Gray, and adults are frequently found nectaring on the blooms.

* usda.gov - plant information

Life Cycle

A small number of large eggs are deposited deep into the flower heads New Mexico plumeseed and hatch in about four days. The young larvae feed exclusively on the developing seeds and later switch to dry, mature seeds. They pass through five instars and burrow underground to pupate, waiting to emerge at the next cycle of summer rains when the host is flowering anew (Hardwick, 1968).

Remarks

A strictly diurnal species (Hardwick, 1968).

See Also

Heliolonche modicella - photos on Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Hardwick, D.F. 1968. The life history of Heliolonche carolus (Noctuidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 23(1): 26-30

McDunnough, J. 1936. A new Heliolonche from southern California (Lepid., Noctuidae). The Canadian Entomologist 68(2): pp 45-46 (abstract)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with collection map and photos of pinned adults.

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 .

Contributed by Ken Wolgemuth on 3 February, 2010 - 6:05pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 10 December, 2013 - 10:51pm

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