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

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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