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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) » Xylenini » Antitypina » Fishia » Fishia connecta - Hodges#9971 (Fishia connecta)

Species Fishia connecta - Hodges#9971

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Fishia connecta - Hodges #9971 - Fishia connecta

Apamea? at black light - Fishia connecta

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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 Xylenini

Subtribe Antitypina

Genus Fishia

Species connecta (Fishia connecta - Hodges#9971)

Hodges Number

9971

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Fishia connecta (Smith, 1894)

Polia connecta Smith, 1894

Phylogenetic sequence # 932692

Numbers

There are five Fishia species in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Forewing length 14-17 mm. (2)

Identification

The original description as Polia connecta Smith, is available online at the link in the print references below.

Forewing is gray and reddish-brown with basal and median dashes. The orbicular spot is round with a lighter filling. (2)

Range

Scattered records throughout most of western North America. (3), (4), (5)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Habitat

Dry sagebrush steppe and open juniper woodlands. (2)

Season

Adults have been reported from April, September to October. (2), (5)

Food

Unknown. (2)

Remarks

Rarely collected. (2)

See Also

Oligia divesta is smaller and found mainly north and west of the Great Basin

Print References

Smith, J.B. 1894. Descriptions of new genera and species of Noctuidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 21: 72. (6)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths

Moth Photographers Group

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Works Cited

1.	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 .

2.	Pacific Northwest Moths

3.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

4.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	Transactions of the American Entomological Society- Journal available for free from Internet Archive

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 28 March, 2012 - 3:29pm
Additional contributions by Steve Morris
Last updated 4 April, 2022 - 4:10pm

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