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Species Tarache knowltoni - Hodges#9139

For Oregon, for June - Tarache knowltoni

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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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)

Tribe Acontiini

Genus Tarache

Species knowltoni (Tarache knowltoni - Hodges#9139)

Hodges Number

9139

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tarache knowltoni McDunnough (1), 1940

Acontia knowltoni McDunnough, 1940 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 931346

Numbers

Tarache includes 34 species in America north of Mexico. (3), (4)

Size

Forewing length 10-11 mm.

Identification

Geographically variable species.

Females are similar to males but more heavily marked usually.

Range

Western Colorado to Oregon, and Washington

Holotype collected in Logan, Utah.

Season

Adults fly from June to September.

Food

Larval host is unknown.

See Also

Tarache abdominalis

Print References

McDunnough, 1940. The Canadian Entomologist. 72:199.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

nearctica.com

Works Cited

1.	James Halliday McDunnough (1877 -1962) A biographical obituary and bibliography Douglas C. Ferguson . 1962. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 16(4): 209-228.

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

3.	Review of the New World genera of the subfamily Acontiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) J. Donald Lafontaine, Robert W. Poole . 2010. ZooKeys 39: 137–160 .

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 .

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 November, 2011 - 5:35pm
Last updated 25 May, 2013 - 2:12am

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