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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) » Noctuini » Agrotina » Eucoptocnemis » Eucoptocnemis elingua - Hodges#10697 (Eucoptocnemis elingua)

Species Eucoptocnemis elingua - Hodges#10697

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · 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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Noctuini

Subtribe Agrotina

Genus Eucoptocnemis

Species elingua (Eucoptocnemis elingua - Hodges#10697)

Hodges Number

10697

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucoptocnemis elingua (Smith, 1903)

Manruta elingua Smith, 1903 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 933260

Numbers

There are five named species of the genus Eucoptocnemis in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Wingspan approximately 29 mm.

Identification

Photo determined by Don Lafontaine

Range

California(3) and Nevada to New Mexico. (4)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

The flight periods appear to be June and September through November. (4)

Print References

Lafontaine, J.D., 2004. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 127; pl. E.38-40.(5)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

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.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part), Noctuinae (Part-Agrotini), Fascicle 27.1 J. Donald Lafontaine. 2004. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 November, 2010 - 6:18pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 8 December, 2013 - 2:13pm

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