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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Phytometrini » Nychioptera » Nychioptera noctuidalis - Hodges#8485 (Nychioptera noctuidalis)

Species Nychioptera noctuidalis - Hodges#8485

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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 Erebidae
Subfamily Boletobiinae
Tribe Phytometrini
Genus Nychioptera
Species noctuidalis (Nychioptera noctuidalis - Hodges#8485)
Hodges Number
8485
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Nychioptera noctuidalis (Dyar, 1907)
Pleonectyptera noctuidalis Dyar, 1907 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930721
Numbers
Nychioptera has three species in America north of Mexico.(2)
Size
Forewing length 8-9 mm.(3)
Identification
The only of the Nychioptera with the reniform filled with black.
Range
Baboquivaria, Chiricahuas, and Huachuca mountains of southeastern Arizona.(3)
Season
Adults are most common from July to September. (4)
See Also
Nychioptera opada lacks the black in the reniform.
Nychioptera accola has two bold black patches along costa.
Print References
Powell, J.A., & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. pl. 43.15; p. 255.(3)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Works Cited
1.A new genus, Nychioptera, with descriptions of two new species and notes on the genus Hemeroplanis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
John G. Franclemont. 1966. Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington 68: 295-306.
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.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 February, 2012 - 5:19pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 28 July, 2013 - 9:30pm

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