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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Hypeninae » Hypena » Hypena degesalis - Hodges#8459 (Hypena degesalis)

Species Hypena degesalis - Hodges#8459

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

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Hypena degesalis - Hodges#8459 - Hypena degesalis

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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 Hypeninae

Genus Hypena

Species degesalis (Hypena degesalis - Hodges#8459)

Hodges Number

8459

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hypena degesalis Walker, 1859 (1)

Species name was misspelled as degasalis in Lafontaine and Schmidt (2010)(2) and Franclemont and Todd (1983). (1)

Hypena ancara Druce, 1890

Hypena vinculalis Möschler, 1890

Hypena disseptalis Walker, [1866]

Ophiuche degasalis (Walker, 1859) (3)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930582 (2)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 29 species of the genus Hypena in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Wingspan about 20 mm. (4)

Identification

Range

Heppner (2003) listed the range to include Florida; Texas; West Indies; Mexico to Brazil. (5)

Season

Heppner (2003) reported March to June, August to December. (5)

Moth Photographers Group displays March to December records. (4)

Food

Heppner (2003) reported the host unknown. (5)

See Also

Hypena abjuralis

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico J. Donald Lafontaine & B. Christian Schmidt. 2011. Zookeys, 149.1805.

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

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 14 December, 2010 - 10:52am
Last updated 30 November, 2013 - 11:36pm

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