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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Scolecocampinae » Gabara » Gabara obscura - Hodges#8518 (Gabara obscura)

Species Gabara obscura - Hodges#8518

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · 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 Erebidae

Subfamily Scolecocampinae

Genus Gabara

Species obscura (Gabara obscura - Hodges#8518)

Hodges Number

8518

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gabara obscura (Grote, 1883) (1)

Scolecocampa obscura Grote, 1883 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930639

Numbers

There are more than 6 Gabara species in America north of Mexico. (3), (4)

Size

Wingspan about 35 mm. (3)

Identification

The original description as Scolecocampa obscura Grote is available at the link in the print references below.

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (5)

Range

Arizona and Mexico. (6), (3)

Holotype: USA: Arizona, Cochise. (2)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Peak flight is from July to August. (3)

See Also

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Grote, 1883. The Canadian Entomologist. 15: 7.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems

Works Cited

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

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

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	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 .

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

6.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 April, 2011 - 10:00am
Last updated 1 April, 2013 - 4:40pm

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