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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Phaegopterina » Cycnia » Cycnia collaris - Hodges#8229 (Cycnia collaris)

Species Cycnia collaris - Hodges#8229

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Erebidae: Cycnia inopinatus? - Cycnia collaris - male

are ALL the following pics The Ohio endangered Unexpected Cycnia Moth? - Cycnia collaris

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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 Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Phaegopterina

Genus Cycnia

Species collaris (Cycnia collaris - Hodges#8229)

Hodges Number

8229

Other Common Names

Unexpected Cycnia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cycnia collaris (Fitch, 1857)

Hyphantria collaris Fitch, 1857

Euchaetes pudens Edwards, 1882

Cycnia inopinatus (Edwards, 1882) (1)

Cycnia inopinatus (H. Edwards, 1882)

Cycnia tenerosa (Dyar, 1913)

* Phylogenetic sequence #930402

Numbers

There are three named species of Cycnia in America north of Mexico.(2)

Identification

Moth varies phenotypically with wings from white to gray and patigia from yellow to gray. (1)

Range

Arizona to Oklahoma and Florida.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data

Habitat

(inopinatus) primarily associated with high quality barrens remnants (3)

Season

Possibly two flights in April and October.

Food

(inopinatus) larvae feed on milkweeds, Aesclepias spp.

Life Cycle

1.larva 2.leaf shelter with pupa 3.adult 4.pupal case

Remarks

All images previously placed in C. inopinatus have been moved to C. collaris as a result of synonomy per Lafontaine & Schmidt, 2015 (1).

See Also

Cycnia tenera forewing has yellow along the costa past the midpoint. Wings of C. collaris are darker.

Cycnia oregonensis also found in eastern North America, has no yellow along the forewing costa or on the thorax, and its abdomen is a darker orange-yellow.

Print References

Edwards, H., 1882. (inopinatus) New species of Heterocera. Papilio. 2: 13

Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 20.(2)

Lafontaine, J. Donald and B. Christian Schmidt. 2015. Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico III. ZooKeys 527: 127–147 (available here)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - map with some distribution data, living and pinned adults.

BOLD - collection map and pinned adults.

(inopinatus) BAMONA

(inopinatus) Papilio, v.2, p.13 Henry Edwards' original description of the species

(inopinatus) USDA Conservation Assessment 2005 - PDF

(inopinatus) U. Minnesota

Works Cited

1.	Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico III Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt. 2015. ZooKeys 527: 127-147.

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.	Conservation Assessment for the unexpected tiger moth (Cycnia inopinatus (Edwards)) James Bess. 2005. USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region, Milwaukee. iii + 27pp.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 November, 2010 - 8:05pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, ceiseman, Chris Grinter, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 4 August, 2019 - 4:08pm

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