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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cuculliinae » Hooded Owlets (Cucullia) » Cucullia dorsalis - Hodges#10190.2 (Cucullia dorsalis)

Species Cucullia dorsalis - Hodges#10190.2

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Cucullia convexipennis caterpillar - Cucullia dorsalis

Plusiinae (Autographa ??) - Cucullia dorsalis

hooded owlet caterpillar - Cucullia dorsalis

caterpillar on Machaeranthera sp. - Cucullia dorsalis

Maybe a Hooded Owlet Moth Caterpillar? - Cucullia dorsalis

Unknown caterpillar - any ideas? - Cucullia dorsalis

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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 Cuculliinae

Genus Cucullia (Hooded Owlets)

Species dorsalis (Cucullia dorsalis - Hodges#10190.2)

Hodges Number

10190.2

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cucullia dorsalis Smith, 1892

formerly synonyms of Cucullia speyeri

treated as a valid species by Poole 1989,1995 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 931518

Numbers

Cucullia includes 36 species in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

forewing length about 22 mm

Identification

forewing is uniform gray with dark anal dash

Range

western Rocky Rountains and the Great Basin

Season

May to August

Food

Larvae have been reared from Machaerantha shastensis and other herbaceous plants including Helianthus sp.

See Also

Often confused with C. laetifica which is usually lighter gray and less uniform in color, having some lighter areas.

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

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

2.	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 .

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 July, 2011 - 1:25pm
Last updated 28 May, 2013 - 2:04pm

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