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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Grotellinae » Grotella » Grotella septempunctata - Hodges#11213 (Grotella septempunctata)

Species Grotella septempunctata - Hodges#11213

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · 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 Grotellinae

Genus Grotella

Species septempunctata (Grotella septempunctata - Hodges#11213)

Hodges Number

11213

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Grotella septempunctata Harvey, 1875

syn. Grotella harveyi Barnes and Benjamin, 1922

Phylogenetic sequence # 931700

Size

Wingspan about 21 mm. (1)

Identification

The original description of Grotella septempunctata Harvey, is available online using the link in the print preferences below.

Range

Arizona to central Texas, Colorado and North Dakota. (2), (3), (4), (1)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Most records of adults are from July to September. (4)

See Also

Compare to others on the archived photos of living moths and pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Note the lack of black dotted line along the outer margin. (similar to some other species)

Grotella blanca

Grotella harveyi

Grotella sampita

Homolagoa grotelliformis

Print References

Barnes and Benjamin, 1922, Contributions of the Natural History of Lepidoptera of North America., 5(1): 11, pl. 1, fig. 2.

Harvey, L.F. 1875. Observations on North American moths. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. p. 278.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Noctuidae of North America - nearctica.com (1)

Works Cited

1.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

2.	The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 26.1. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae: Cuculliinae, Stiriinae, Psaphidinae. Robert W. Poole. 1995. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

3.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 August, 2010 - 9:34am
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 28 August, 2019 - 12:02am

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