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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Noctuina » Xestia » Xestia okakensis - Hodges#10939 (Xestia okakensis)

Species Xestia okakensis - Hodges#10939

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Habitat · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Xestia sp, I think - possibly okakensis - Xestia okakensis

10939 Xestia okakensis – (Packard, 1867) - Xestia okakensis

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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Noctuini

Subtribe Noctuina

Genus Xestia

Species okakensis (Xestia okakensis - Hodges#10939)

Hodges Number

10939

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Xestia okakensis (Packard, 1867)

Pachnobi okakensis Packard, 1867

Phylogenetic sequence # 933604

Numbers

50 species in the genus are found in America north of Mexico.(1)

Two subspecies recognized.(1)

X. okakensis okakensis (Packard, 1867)(1)

X. okakensis morandi (Benjamin, 1934)(1)

Range

Alaska, Yukon to Labrador and south to New Hampshire; northern Manitoba and northern British Columbia

Habitat

alpine and subalpine species

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Lafontaine, J.D. 1998. The Moths of North America. Fascicle 27.3: p. 149; pl. 4.5-10.(2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Noctuoidea of Western Canada

Survey of the Lepidoptera Fauna in Willmore Wilderness Park - (PDF download) listed as rare for the park

CBIF

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.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuiodea, Noctuinae, Noctuini (Part), Fascicle 27.3 J. Donald LaFontaine. 1998. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 17 May, 2011 - 9:40am
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor
Last updated 28 February, 2016 - 8:58pm

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