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Species Metalectra miserulata - Hodges#8506

Metalectra miserulata? - Metalectra miserulata

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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 Boletobiini

Genus Metalectra

Species miserulata (Metalectra miserulata - Hodges#8506)

Hodges Number

8506

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Metalectra miserulata (Grote(1), 1882)

Homopyralis miserulata Grote, 1882 (2)

syn. Yrias irentis Smith, 1905 (3)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930686

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed eleven species of the genus Metalectra for America, north of Mexico. (4)

Powell & Opler (2009) reported ten species, with five occurring in the West. (5)

Size

Grote (1882) listed the wingspan as 20-22 mm. (2)

Identification

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (6)

There are 4 narrowly separated BINs at BOLD for Metalectra miserulata indicating that this may be a complex with more than one species. - 2/8/2018

Range

Texas to Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. (7), (8), (9)

Syntype collected in New Mexico. (3)

Season

The adults are most common from May to September. (8)

Food

The larvae of the genus Metalectra are known to be fungus feeders, with a few possibly feeding on spruce. (5)

See Also

The eastern species Metalectra albilinea has very similar genitalia, and a distictive white subterminal line. (10)

Compare on the plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Grote(1), A.R., 1882. New moths. The Canadian Entomologist, 14: 185. (2)

Grote, A.R. 1883. New species and notes on structure of moths and genera. The Canadian Entomologist, 15: 123.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (8)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (11)

Moths of Dallas County, Texas (9)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	New moths A. R. Grote. 1882. The Canadian Entomologist, 14: 181-188.

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

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 .

5.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

7.	Survey of Utah Moth Species

8.	North American Moth Photographers Group

9.	Moths of Dallas County, Texas

10.	A new species of Metalectra from Florida (Lepidoptera, Phalaenidae) A. Glenn Richards Jr. . 1941. American Museum Novitates 1115: 1-2.

11.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 28 February, 2012 - 9:42am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 8 February, 2018 - 5:21am

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