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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Hypeninae » Hypena » Red-footed Hypena - Hodges#8455 (Hypena eductalis)

Species Hypena eductalis - Red-footed Hypena - Hodges#8455

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

8455 Red-footed Hypena - Hypena eductalis

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Hypeninae

Genus Hypena

Species eductalis (Red-footed Hypena - Hodges#8455)

Hodges Number

8455

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hypena eductalis Walker, 1858, Lafontaine & Schmidt, 2010 (1)

Lomanaltes lætulus Grote, 1873

Lomanaltes eductalis Smith, 1893 (2)

Hypena eductalis Hampson, 1895 (junior homonym - species described from India) (1)

Numbers

one of twenty-nine species in the genus for North America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

wingspan about 25 mm.

Identification

Range

Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia and south to Florida and Texas

Food

larval host is alder

See Also

Deceptive Hypena - Hypena deceptalis

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1874. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 1: 14

Smith, J. B., 1895. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 48: (3)

Walker, F. 1858. Deltoides List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. 16: 36

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (4)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)(6)

Moths of Canada - Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (CBIF)

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.	Catalogue of the lepidopterous superfamily Noctuidae found in Boreal America John B. Smith. 1893. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 44: 1-424.

3.	Contributions toward a monograph of the insects of the Lepidopterous family Noctuidae of boreal North America a ... John B. Smith. 1895. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 48: 1-129.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

6.	Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)

Contributed by tom murray on 9 June, 2010 - 9:17am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Tony-2, Maury Heiman, Kyhl Austin, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 23 September, 2024 - 3:10pm

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