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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 » Xylenina » Homoglaea » Homoglaea carbonaria - Hodges#9883 (Homoglaea carbonaria)

Species Homoglaea carbonaria - Hodges#9883

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

Homoglaea species - Homoglaea carbonaria

Noctuidae: Homoglaea dives - Homoglaea carbonaria

Homoglaea carbonaria? - Homoglaea carbonaria

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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 Xylenina

Genus Homoglaea

Species carbonaria (Homoglaea carbonaria - Hodges#9883 )

Hodges Number

9883

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Homoglaea carbonaria (Harvey, 1876)

Lithophane carbonaria Harvey, 1876

Phylogenetic sequence #932529

Size

Forewing length 18-20 mm. (1)

Identification

The original description as Lithophane carbonaria Harvey, is available to read online or in PDF. (2)

Specimens identified by DNA analysis:

Range

California to Texas , north to British Columbia and Alberta. (3), (4), (5), (6), (1), (7)

Food

Larval hosts include: (1)

Willows (Salix) spp.

Cottonwoods (Populus) spp.

Quaking aspen (P. tremuloides)

See Also

Homoglaea dives

Print References

Harvey, L.F 1876. New Californian and Texan Moths. The Canadian Entomologist. 8: (2)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths

Moth Photographers Group

Noctuoidea of Canada

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum (University of Alberta )

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Works Cited

1.	Pacific Northwest Moths

2.	New Californian and Texan Moths Leon F. Harvey. 1876. The Canadian Entomologist 8(3): 52-56.

3.	Moths of Rocky Mountain National Park (USGS)

4.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

5.	Survey of Utah Moth Species

6.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

7.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 April, 2012 - 6:00pm
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 5 November, 2018 - 9:17pm

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