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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 » Tricholita » Tricholita chipeta - Hodges#10631 (Tricholita chipeta)

Species Tricholita chipeta - Hodges#10631

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

Brown Moth with White L on Wing - Tricholita chipeta

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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 Tricholita

Species chipeta (Tricholita chipeta - Hodges#10631)

Hodges Number

10631

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tricholita chipeta Barnes, 1904 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 933199

Numbers

There are ten named species of the genus Tricholita in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Barnes (1904) listed the wingspan.

♂ 32 mm.

♀ 35 mm.

Identification

The original description of Tricholita chipeta Barnes, is available in the print references below.

Range

Southern California and Nevada to Texas(2) and Colorado. (3), (4), (5)

Season

The adults are most common from July to October. (4)

Food

Powell & Opler (2009) reported the host plant to be Gutierrezia wrightii (Asteraceae).(6)

See Also

Compare to the related species on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Barnes, W. 1904. New species of North American Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 36: 202.

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 56.29, p. 307.(6)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (7)

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (8)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (9)

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 Dallas County, Texas

3.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Survey of Utah Moth Species

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

7.	Pacific Northwest Moths

8.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

9.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 10 August, 2010 - 7:25pm
Last updated 29 August, 2013 - 11:45pm

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