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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Flower Moths (Schinia) » Schinia psamathea - Hodges#11140.1 (Schinia psamathea)

Species Schinia psamathea - Hodges#11140.1

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

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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 Heliothinae

Genus Schinia (Flower Moths)

Species psamathea (Schinia psamathea - Hodges#11140.1)

Hodges Number

11140.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia psamathea Pogue, 2010 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932135.1 (2)

Size

Pogue (2010) listed the forewing length. (1)

♀ 12.6–13.8 mm.

♂ 12.6–14.2 mm.

Identification

The original description is available in PDF. (1)

The only transverse line on the forewing is a dark brown postmedial line. Antemedial line seldom present and if so is extremely faint. (1)

Range

Florida Panhandle to east-central Georgia to southwestern Mississippi. (1), (3)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Habitat

Coastal dunes and inland deep dunes. (1) Range is very similar to the range of woody goldenrod (Chrysoma pauciflosculosa)

Season

Adults fly from mid-September to late October. (1), (3)

Food

Pogue (2010) reported the adults take nectar at flowers in the late evening. (1)

See Also

Plagiomimicus manti

Plagiomimicus spumosum

Papaipema silphii

Print References

Pogue, M.G., 2010. A new species of Schinia Hubner from the southeastern United States (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Heliothinae). ZooKeys 52: 57-64. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	A new species of Schinia Hubner from the southeastern United States (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Heliothinae) Michael Pogue . 2010. ZooKeys 52: 57-64.

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 .

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 November, 2011 - 3:04pm
Additional contributions by Giff Beaton
Last updated 8 November, 2023 - 1:37pm

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