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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) » Hadenini » Anarta » Anarta decepta - Hodges#10259 (Anarta decepta)

Species Anarta decepta - Hodges#10259

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

Tribe Hadenini

Genus Anarta

Species decepta (Anarta decepta - Hodges#10259)

Hodges Number

10259

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anarta decepta (Grote, 1883) (1)

Trichoclea decepta Grote, 1883

synonym: Anarta postica - Hodges #10254

Phylogenetic sequence # 932845

Numbers

There are 15 named Anarta species in America north of Mexico.(2)

Size

Wingspan 28-34 mm.

Identification

The original description as Trichoclea decepta Grote, and the revised description by Hampson (1905) are both available online at the links in the print references below.

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)

Range

Great Plains and Great Basin area. Texas to California and north to British Columbia and southeastern Saskatchewan. (4), (5), (6)

Season

There are records of adults from February to November. (6)

Food

Larval host is unknown but probably various herbaceous vegetation. (7)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1883. On Stiria, with new genera and species of Noctuidae. Papilio 3: 30.

Hampson, L. 1905. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. 5: 240.

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

E. H. Strickland Museum

Works Cited

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

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.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

4.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

5.	Survey of Utah Moth Species

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

7.	Pacific Northwest Moths

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 14 March, 2012 - 1:51am
Last updated 13 April, 2013 - 1:48am

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