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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) » Orthosiini » Orthosia » Orthosia terminata - Hodges#10484 (Orthosia terminata)

Species Orthosia terminata - Hodges#10484

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Season · Remarks · 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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Orthosiini

Genus Orthosia

Species terminata (Orthosia terminata - Hodges#10484 )

Hodges Number

10484

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Orthosia terminata (Smith, 1888)

Taeniocampa terminata Smith, 1888 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932768 (2)

Size

Forewing length 16 mm. (3)

Identification

The original and revised description can be found online in the print references.

Season

Adults have been collected from March to April. (4), (3)

Remarks

rarely collected. (3)

See Also

Orthosia pacifica

Print References

Smith, J.B. 1887. New genera and species of North American Noctuidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 10: 475.

Smith, J.B. 1889. Contributions toward a monograph of the Noctuidae of Temperate North America: Revision of some Tamiocampid genera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 12: 485.

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (3)

Moth Photographers Group (4)

E.H. Strickland Museum (5)

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 .

3.	Pacific Northwest Moths

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	University of Alberta Entomology Collection

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 4 January, 2012 - 5:20pm
Last updated 6 April, 2014 - 9:30pm

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