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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Oncocnemidinae » Sympistis » Sympistis poliochroa - Hodges#10094.4 (Sympistis poliochroa)

Species Sympistis poliochroa - Hodges#10094.4

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · 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 Oncocnemidinae

Genus Sympistis

Species poliochroa (Sympistis poliochroa - Hodges#10094.4)

Hodges Number

10094.4

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sympistis poliochroa (Hampson, 1906)

Oncocnemis poliochroa Hampson, 1906

Phylogenetic sequence # 931853

Numbers

There are more than 175 Sympistis species in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan 36 mm. (Hampson)

Identification

Original description as Oncocnemis poliochroa Hampson, is available at the link in the print references below.

Range

California to Colorado and northward. (2), (3), (4)

Moth Photographers Group map

Season

Records of adults are mostly from August to September. (3)

Food

Larval host is unknown but Penstemon species are likely. (2)

See Also

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Hampson, G.F. 1906. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. 6: 175.

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths

Moth Photographers Group

Noctuoidea of Canada

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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.	Pacific Northwest Moths

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 9 January, 2011 - 8:55am
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 17 November, 2017 - 3:25am

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