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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Flower Moths (Schinia) » Boneset Flower Moth - Hodges#11148.1 (Schinia grandimedia)

Species Schinia grandimedia - Boneset Flower Moth - Hodges#11148.1

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

Schinia trifascia 11149? - Schinia grandimedia

possible Schinia oleagina - Schinia grandimedia

Boneset Flower Moth - Schinia grandimedia

Schinia-grandimedia - Schinia grandimedia

Boneset Flower Moth - Hodges#11148.1 - Schinia grandimedia

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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 Heliothinae

Genus Schinia (Flower Moths)

Species grandimedia (Boneset Flower Moth - Hodges#11148.1)

Hodges Number

11148.1

Other Common Names

Rockies boneset flower moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia grandimedia Hardwick, 1996 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932095 (2)

Size

Wingspan about 26 mm. (3)

Identification

Hardwick (1996) description. (1)

Range

Arizona to Mississippi, north to Montana and Indiana. (3)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

The main flight period is July to October. (3)

Food

The larval hostplant is Brickellia eupatorioides (L.) Shinners (false boneset).

See Also

Schinia oleagina has the PM line more curved or "S" shaped.

Schinia trifascia, the Three-lined Flower Moth is very similar. (check the range) Has light shading, along the costal edge, from the base to the AM line.

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	A Monograph to the New World Heliothentinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) David F. Hardwick. 1996. Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 2 February, 2011 - 11:56pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, marcie oconnor, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 16 August, 2023 - 6:38pm

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