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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 intrabilis - Hodges#11159 (Schinia intrabilis)

Species Schinia intrabilis - Hodges#11159

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · 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 intrabilis (Schinia intrabilis - Hodges#11159)

Hodges Number

11159

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia intrabilis Smith, 1893

Phylogenetic sequence # 932152 (1)

Size

Smith (1893) listed the wingspan 23-24 mm.

Identification

The Smith (1893) original description is available in the print references.

Range

California(2), Nevada, Utah(3) to Texas. (4), (5)

Holotype from Death Valley, California.

Moth Photographers Group map(4)

Season

The flight periods appears to be March to June, September. (4)

Food

The larvae feed on Pluchea sericea (Nutt.) Coville (arrowweed). (5)

Life Cycle

Life cycle in PDF. (5)

See Also

Schinia ligeae

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.(4)

Print References

Smith, J.B. 1893. Descriptions of Noctuidae from the Death Valley. Insect Life. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology. p. 331.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (7)

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.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

3.	Survey of Utah Moth Species

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	The life history of Schinia intrabilis (Noctuidae) D. F. Hardwick. 1972. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 26(1): 24-28.

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

7.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 30 March, 2011 - 11:04pm
Last updated 5 April, 2014 - 3:40pm

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