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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Flower Moths (Schinia) » Schinia ciliata - Hodges#11200 (Schinia ciliata)

Species Schinia ciliata - Hodges#11200

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

Acrolophus - White with colorful crest - Schinia ciliata

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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 Heliothinae

Genus Schinia (Flower Moths)

Species ciliata (Schinia ciliata - Hodges#11200)

Hodges Number

11200

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia ciliata Smith, 1900 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932174 (2)

Size

wingspan about 22 mm.

Range

Southwestern North America

area bounded by south Texas to Colorado east to Nevada and south to southern California.

Habitat

Shortgrass and mixed prairies.

Food

Larval host is broom snakeweed, (Gutierrezia sarothrae). Hardwick (1996)

See Also

Schinia rufocostulata

Schinia chrysellus

Schinia alencis

Print References

Pogue, M.G. & C.E. Harp 2006. Systematics of Schinia chrysellus (Grote) complex: Revised status of Schinia alencis (Harvey) with a description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae); p.16-20.(3)

Smith, J.B. 1900. A hundred new moths of the family Noctuidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 22: 48. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

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

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

Works Cited

1.	A hundred new moths of the family Noctuidae John B. Smith. 1900. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 22(1203): 413-495.

2.	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 .

3.	Systematics of Schinia chrysellus (Grote) complex: Revised status of Schinia alencis with a description of two new species Michael G. Pogue & Charles E. Harp. 2006. Magnolia Press Zootaxa 898: 1–35.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

6.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 19 August, 2010 - 11:57am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 24 September, 2014 - 7:40pm

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