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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Scolecocampinae » Gabara » Gabara stygialis - Hodges#8520 (Gabara stygialis)

Species Gabara stygialis - Hodges#8520

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · 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 Erebidae

Subfamily Scolecocampinae

Genus Gabara

Species stygialis (Gabara stygialis - Hodges#8520)

Hodges Number

8520

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gabara stygialis (Smith, 1903)

Eucalyptra stygialis Smith, 1903 (1)

Gabara infumata [Hodges #8521] is now considered a synonym. (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930641

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet stygialis from Latin meaning "hellish, deadly."

Numbers

Gabara includes 7 species in America north of Mexico. (3)

Size

Wingspan about 24 mm. (1)

Identification

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (4)

Range

Arizona and New Mexico. (5)

Season

Adults appear to be most common in January, July to September. (MPG)

Food

Larval host plant is unknown.

Print References

Smith, J.B. 1903. New Noctuids for 1903, No. 4, with notes on certain described species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 29(3): 219. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Works Cited

1.	New noctuids for 1903, No. 4, with notes on certain described species John B. Smith. 1903. Transactions of The American Entomological Society 29(3): 191-224.

2.	Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico J. Donald Lafontaine & B. Christian Schmidt. 2011. Zookeys, 149.1805.

3.	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 .

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 27 February, 2012 - 1:30pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 January, 2015 - 6:26pm

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