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Species Tesagrotis corrodera - Hodges#10978.1

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Tesagrotis corrodera - Hodges #10978.1 - Tesagrotis corrodera Tesagrotis corrodera Tesagrotis corrodera? - Tesagrotis corrodera
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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 Tesagrotis
Species corrodera (Tesagrotis corrodera - Hodges#10978.1)

Hodges Number

10978.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tesagrotis corrodera (Smith, 1907)
Noctua corrodera Smith, 1910
Satagrotis corrodera (Smith, 1910)
Formerly subspecies Tesagrotis piscipellis corrodera [Hodges #10978]
Phylogenetic sequence # 933638

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed four species of the genus Tesagrotis in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Forewing length 15-19 mm. (2)

Identification

Pacific Northwest Moths has detailed description.
Miller & Hammond (2003) describe the larvae and adult in PDF. (3)

Range

British Columbia south along eastern side of Cascadei-Sierra Nevada to eastern central California. Also found in northeastern Nevada to southern Wyoming and western Colorado. (4), (2)

Habitat

Miller & Hammond (2003) reported the species occurs in pine forests, juniper woodlands, and sagebrush rangelands. (3)

Season

The main flight period is August to October. (2)

Food

Larvae feed on Purshia tridentata (bitterbrush). (2)

See Also

Tesagrotis piscipellis does not have a unicolorous head and thorax and does not have pale shading along costal region of forewings. (5)
Tesagrotis atrifrons does not have a unicolorous head and thorax and does not have pale shading along costal region of forewings. (5)
Tesagrotis amia has a unicolorous head and thorax as in corrodera, but does not have pale shading of the forewing costal area. (5)

Print References

Lafontaine, J.D., 1998. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.3. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 189; pl. 5.24. (5)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 316, pl. 58.29. (2)
Smith, J.B., 1910. New Species of Noctuidae for 1910. no. 1. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 18: 85.

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (6)
Moth Photographers Group (7)
Lepbarcoding.org
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)
Noctuoidea of Canada

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.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
3.Lepidoptera of the Pacific Northwest: Caterpillars and Adults
Miller & Hammond. 2003. USDA.
4.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
5.The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuiodea, Noctuinae, Noctuini (Part), Fascicle 27.3
J. Donald LaFontaine. 1998. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
6.Pacific Northwest Moths
7.North American Moth Photographers Group
8.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 October, 2011 - 8:59am
Additional contributions by Steve Morris
Last updated 29 April, 2023 - 10:57am

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