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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) » Dypterygiini » Dypterygia » Dypterygia patina - Hodges#9561 (Dypterygia patina)

Species Dypterygia patina - Hodges#9561

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

Dypterygia patina - Hodges #9561 - Dypterygia patina

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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 Dypterygiini

Genus Dypterygia

Species patina (Dypterygia patina - Hodges#9561)

Hodges Number

9561

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dypterygia patina (Harvey, 1875)(1),(2)

Hadena patina Harvey, 1875

Dypterygia minorata Barnes, 1907 (Dyar synonymized this with Hadena patina in 1908.)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932274 (3)

Numbers

There are six named species of the genus Dypterygia in America north of Mexico.(3)

Size

Harvey (1875) listed a wingspan of 32 mm.

Identification

There are apparently two divergent color forms of this species, one mostly brown with various black streaks and crosslines,

the other almost entirely blackish with just a narrow buff inner margin on the FWs.

Range

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some collection locations and dates.

Holotype: Texas, Bosque County(1)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (4)

Print References

Harvey, L.F. 1875. On the Texas Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Belfrage. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 3: 7-8

Poole, R.W. 1989. Noctuidae: Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) p. 335, pl. 2 fig.4. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

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

3.	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 .

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 19 November, 2010 - 6:09pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Chuck Sexton, Randy Hardy
Last updated 18 November, 2018 - 9:16am

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