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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Eublemmini » Eublemma » Eublemma cinnamomea - Hodges#9077 (Eublemma cinnamomea)

Species Eublemma cinnamomea - Hodges#9077

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

Texas SE Gulf Coast - Eublemma cinnamomea

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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 Eublemmini

Genus Eublemma

Species cinnamomea (Eublemma cinnamomea - Hodges#9077)

Hodges Number

9077

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eublemma cinnamomea (Herrich-Schäffer, 1868)

Trothisa cinnamomea Herrich-Schäffer, 1868

Phylogenetic sequence # 930694.

Numbers

There are four named Eublemma species in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan about 17 mm.

Identification

The revised description by Hampson (1910) is available online in the print references below.

Range

Texas to Florida. (2)

Also found in the West Indies, Mexico to South America.

Type Locality: Cuba.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Adults fly March through November. (2)

See Also

Eublemma recta

Eublemma irresoluta from southwestern United States.

Compare to others on the archived photos of living moths and pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Hampson, G.F. 1910. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. p. (171)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 4 April, 2012 - 10:16am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 17 November, 2013 - 1:33am

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