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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Eriopygini » Lacinipolia » vicina complex (Lacinipolia vicina complex) » Lacinipolia vicina - Hodges#10394 (Lacinipolia vicina)

Species Lacinipolia vicina - Hodges#10394

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Eriopygini
Genus Lacinipolia
No Taxon (vicina complex)
Species vicina (Lacinipolia vicina - Hodges#10394)
Hodges Number
10394
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lacinipolia vicina (Grote, 1874)
Mamestra vicina Grote, 1874
Mamestra imbuna Smith, 1905, syn. rev. (1)
Identification
See Schmidt 2015 p. 107 (1)
Range
True L. vicina only occurs in the Northeast, from New England to Tennessee. Other records outside of this area refer to other species in the vicina complex, which went under the name vicina until the 2015 revision of this group. Records prior to 2015 refer to these other species as "vicina" also.
Remarks
Part of the Lacinipolia vicina (Grote) species complex (1)
Print References
Grote, A.R. 1874 Notes on American Lepidoptera with descriptions of twenty-one new species. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 2: 156
Smith, J.B. 1905 New species of Noctuidae for 1905, No. 3. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 13: 201
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Moths of Canada - Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (CBIF)
E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum (4)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Lacinipolia vicina (Grote) complex (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Eriopygini)
Schmidt, B.C. 2015. ZooKeys 527: 103-126.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
4.University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
Contributed by Ian Maton on 30 May, 2010 - 10:53am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, dennepj10, Steve Morris
Last updated 14 January, 2024 - 10:33am

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