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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) » Schinia velaris - Hodges#11153 (Schinia velaris)

Species Schinia velaris - Hodges#11153

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · 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 Heliothinae

Genus Schinia (Flower Moths)

Species velaris (Schinia velaris - Hodges#11153)

Hodges Number

11153

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia velaris (Grote(1), 1878)

Tamila velaris Grote, 1878

syn. Schinia ochreifascia (Smith, 1891)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932179

Size

Wingspan 23-25 mm. (Grote), (2)

Identification

The Grote (1878) original description as Tamila velaris is available in the print references.

Range

Southwestern United States. (3), (4), (2)

Holotype collected in USA: California, Caliente. (5)

Food

Larval host is Lepidospartum squamatum (A. Gray) A. Gray (broomsage).

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1878. New Noctuids. The Canadian Entomologist. 11: 197.

Smith, 1893. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 44: 274.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

University of Alberta. E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Checklist of the butterflies of Los Angeles County, California (includes moths) Lila Higgins. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

4.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

5.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 February, 2011 - 12:25am
Last updated 5 April, 2014 - 2:58pm

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