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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Hypeninae » Hypena » White-lined Hypena - Hodges#8445 (Hypena abalienalis)

Species Hypena abalienalis - White-lined Hypena - Hodges#8445

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

White-Lined Bomolocha - Hypena abalienalis - female

White-lined Hypena - Hodges#8445 - Hypena abalienalis

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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 abalienalis (White-lined Hypena - Hodges#8445)

Hodges Number

8445

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hypena abalinealis Walker, 1859. Synonyms:

Bomolocha abalinealis Walker, 1859

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 29 species of the genus Hypena in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length 12-14 mm. (2)

Identification

Lacy pattern with doubled postmedian line on dark background is distinctive.

Range

Eastern North America

Season

April-August

Life Cycle

Larvae feed on Slippery Elm--Ulmus rubra.

See Also

Hypena palparia - PM is much more irregular than H. abalienalis

Print References

Covell, p. 318, plate 40 #17, #20 (3)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, p. 255, pl. 43.7. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Pacific Northwest Moths (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

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.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

3.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Pacific Northwest Moths

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Cotinis on 14 June, 2004 - 5:11pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 3 July, 2016 - 2:24pm

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