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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Amphipyrinae » Psaphidini » Psaphidina » Psaphida » Fawn Sallow - Hodges#10016 (Psaphida styracis)

Species Psaphida styracis - Fawn Sallow - Hodges#10016

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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 Amphipyrinae
Tribe Psaphidini
Subtribe Psaphidina
Genus Psaphida
Species styracis (Fawn Sallow - Hodges#10016)
Hodges Number
10016
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Psaphida styracis(Guenée, 1852) (1)
Taeniocampa styracis Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
Copipanolis cubilis (Grote(2), 1874)
C. stigma (Smith, 1890)
C. borealis (Smith, 1892)
C. fasciata (Smith, 1892)
Phylogenetic sequence # 931553 (1)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed seven species of the genus Psaphida in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Forewing length average 17 mm. (3)
Identification

Wagner et al. (2011)(4) and Wagner (2010)(5) includes description and photos of larvae. (preview page)
Range
Eastern North America. (3), (6), (7), (8), (9)
Moth Photographers Group map
Season
The main flight period appears to be January to late May. (6)
Food
Larval hosts include: (3), (10)
Quercus sp. (oak).
Fraxinus sp. (ash).
Life Cycle
Eggs; Larva; Adult female; Adult Male:
Remarks
Beadle & Leckie (2012) reported the species as uncommon. (10)
See Also
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (6)
Print References
Grote(2), A.R. 1874. Sixth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Acadamry of Science for 1873. p. 26.
Guenée, 1852. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species General des Lépidoptéres, 5: 357.
Smith, J.B. 1890. A new Copipanolis. Entomologica Americana. 6: 220.
Smith, J.B. 1892. Contributions toward a monograph of the Noctuidae of Boreal America. Revision of the Dicopinae. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum. 15: 62.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (6)
Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com) (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (11)
Larry Line's Moths of Maryland
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.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
3.Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)
4.Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America
David L. Wagner. 2011. Princeton University Press.
5.Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History (Princeton Field Guides)
David L. Wagner. 2010. Princeton University Press, 1-496.
6.North American Moth Photographers Group
7.South Carolina Moth Species
8.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
9.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
10.Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.
11.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 15 April, 2010 - 1:50pm
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 28 February, 2019 - 11:23pm

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