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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Metoponiinae » Azenia » Azenia implora - Hodges#9729 (Azenia implora)

Species Azenia implora - Hodges#9729

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 Metoponiinae

Genus Azenia

Species implora (Azenia implora - Hodges#9729)

Hodges Number

9729

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Azenia implora Grote, 1882

* phylogenetic sequence #931728

Numbers

Six species of Azenia are found in America north of Mexico (Lafontaine & Schmidt, 2010).

Size

Wingspan about 20-24 mm

Identification

Forewing is pale lemon-yellow and hindwings are white. Two prominent dots parallel and just inside of inner margin of forewing.

Range

Southern California to southern Texas, Colorado, Nevada (Nearctica.com).

Season

Adults fly July through September, and also in May (Nearctica.com).

Print References

Grote, A. R. 1882. Some new noctuids and notes. Papilio 2(9-10): 186

Hodges, R. W. (ed.) 1983. Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico.(1)

Lafontaine J. D. & B. C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico; p.58

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pnned adults.

Moth Photographers Group - photograph of pinned adult and related species for comparison.

BOLD - species account with photographs of pinned adults and DNA sequence.

Moths of Southeastern Arizona - photograph of pinned adults.

Nearctica - species page

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 15 January, 2011 - 1:53pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 6 March, 2013 - 7:33pm

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