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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Hypenodinae » Hypenopsis » Black-spotted Schrankia - Hodges#8431 (Hypenopsis macula)

Species Hypenopsis macula - Black-spotted Schrankia - Hodges#8431

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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 Hypenodinae
Genus Hypenopsis
Species macula (Black-spotted Schrankia - Hodges#8431)
Hodges Number
8431
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hypenopsis macula (Druce, 1891)
Hypenodes macula Druce, 1891
Numbers
Size
wingspan 13-18 mm
Identification
Adult: forewing dark brown or gray except yellowish beyond straight oblique PM line; AM line black, broken; reniform dot and dotted terminal line black; subterminal line wavy, inconspicuous; small pale patch at apex; hindwing light gray with indistinct median line; labial palps well separated, upturned
--adapted from description by Charles Covell (1)
Range
Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.
also occurs south to Central America
Food
larvae feed on bracket fungus, according to Covell's Guide
See Also
Hypenopsis calusa Landry & Landry, 2023
Hypenopsis sonora Landry & Landry, 2023
Print References
Covell, p. 321, plate 41 #8 (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
presence in California; list (U. of California at Berkeley)
Works Cited
1.Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths
Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 23 April, 2006 - 9:33am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman
Last updated 9 November, 2023 - 10:23am

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