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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) » Northern Flower Moth - Hodges#11110 (Schinia septentrionalis)

Species Schinia septentrionalis - Northern Flower Moth - Hodges#11110

Representative Images

Northern Flower Moth - Schinia septentrionalis - female Northern Flower Moth - Schinia septentrionalis Unknown Moth - Schinia septentrionalis Unknown Moth - Schinia septentrionalis Unknown Small Moth - Underwing? - Schinia septentrionalis Unknown Helianthoides Moth? - Schinia septentrionalis unknown moth - Schinia septentrionalis unknown moth - Schinia septentrionalis
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

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 septentrionalis (Northern Flower Moth - Hodges#11110)

Hodges Number

11110

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia septentrionalis (Walker, 1858)
Omia septentrionalis Walker, 1858
Phylogentic sequence # 932114 (1)

Size

Wingspan 22-25 mm.

Identification

Range

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Food

The larvae feed on various asters including Symphyotrichum laeve, and Symphyotrichum oblongifolium

Life Cycle

Life cycle images:
1.larva 2.adult

See Also

Schinia bicusp

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Moths of Canada

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.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 September, 2010 - 8:24pm
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor
Last updated 28 January, 2015 - 6:18pm

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