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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)

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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