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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Hypeninae » Hypena » Mottled Hypena - Hodges#8444 (Hypena palparia)

Species Hypena palparia - Mottled Hypena - Hodges#8444

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Moth - Hypena palparia Mottled Bomolocha - Hodges#8444 (Hypena palparia) - Hypena palparia Moth on the shed wall - Hypena palparia Mottled Hypena - Hypena palparia Moth - Hypena palparia Hypena palparia - Mottled Bomolocha - Hypena palparia Bomolocha moth - Hypena palparia Moth to porch light - Hypena palparia
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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 palparia (Mottled Hypena - Hodges#8444)
Hodges Number
8444
Other Common Names
Variegated Snout-moth
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hypena palparia (Walker, 1861)
Bomolocha palparia Walker, 1861
Phylogenetic sequence # 930565
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 29 species of the genus Hypena in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Wingspan 27-33 mm.
Identification
Adult: forewing with large dark brown median patch that extends to inner margin (often lighter brown toward inner margin); basal and outer parts of forewing paler, mottled (pale areas darker in male than in female; female shows greater contrast between dark median area and pale subterminal area); apical dash broken; hindwing variably light to dark grayish-brown.
Range
All of United States and southern Canada (Nova Scotia to Florida(2), west to California(3), north to British Columbia); however, the species name does not appear on moth lists from Arizona and Texas (1, 2, 3)
Habitat
Mature mixed and deciduous woods; adults are nocturnal and attracted to light.
Season
Adults fly from April to October in the south; May to August in Ohio; June and July in Alberta.
Food
Larval hosts include: (4)
Hop-Hornbeam, Ostrya virginiana
Hazel, Corylus spp.
Life Cycle
Two generations per year.
See Also
in Baltimore Bomolocha (Hypena baltimoralis), median patch does not extend to inner margin of forewing.


some other species of Hypena are also similar
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Pacific Northwest Moths
BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems
E. H. Strickland Museum
Lynn Scotts' Lepidoptera images
E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum, U. of Alberta
pinned adult image (CBIF)
CBIF
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.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
3.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
4.Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America
David L. Wagner. 2011. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 22 April, 2006 - 3:21pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 3 July, 2016 - 2:25pm

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