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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) » Arzamini » Bellura » Black-tailed Diver - Hodges#9523.1  (Bellura vulnifica)

Species Bellura vulnifica - Black-tailed Diver - Hodges#9523.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
White-tailed Diver Moth - Bellura vulnifica 93-2514(B) Bellura vulnifica (Grote) - Bellura vulnifica Black-tailed Diver - Bellura vulnifica Moth4 - Bellura vulnifica Black-tailed Diver - Bellura vulnifica Black-tailed Diver - Bellura vulnifica 9523.1 Black-tailed Diver (Bellura vulnifica) - Bellura vulnifica 9523.1 Black-tailed Diver (Bellura vulnifica) - Bellura vulnifica
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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 Arzamini
Genus Bellura
Species vulnifica (Black-tailed Diver - Hodges#9523.1 )
Hodges Number
9523.1
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bellura vulnifica (Grote, 1873) (1)
Arxama vulnifica Grote, 1873 (2)
Elevated from synonymy of Bellura gortynoides (2)
Phylogenetic sequence # 932514
Explanation of Names
This species, formerly a synonym of Bellura gortynoides, was raised to full species status by Lafontaine and Schmidt (2010). "B. gortynoides is of a brighter yellow color throughout its range, with little or no tendency to become darker northward." (1)
Numbers
Bellura has six species in America north of Mexico. (1)
Identification
Forewing has dark strongly scalloped postmedial line. (3)
Identified by Don Lafontaine
Range
Eastern North America from Florida to New Brunswick. (4)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Print References
Beadle, D, & S. Leckie 2012. Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. (5)
Wagner, D., Schweitzer, D.F., Sullivan, J.B.. Reardon. R.C. 2011. Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America. (6)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Pacific Northwest Moths (compared to Bellura obliqua)
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.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
3.Pacific Northwest Moths
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.
6.Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America
David L. Wagner. 2011. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 May, 2011 - 7:52pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 23 September, 2018 - 4:28pm

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