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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Spilosomina » Hypercompe » Hypercompe caudata - Hodges#8147 (Hypercompe caudata)

Species Hypercompe caudata - Hodges#8147

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · 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 Erebidae

Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Spilosomina

Genus Hypercompe

Species caudata (Hypercompe caudata - Hodges#8147)

Hodges Number

8147

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hypercompe caudata (Walker, 1855)

Ecpantheria caudata Walker, 1855

Phylogenetic sequence # 930324

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed six species of the genus Hypercompe in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Hampson (1901) listed a wingspan of ♂ 56 mm; ♀ 86 mm.

Identification

Hampson (1901) revised description as Ecpantheria caudata Walker, is available in the print references.

Range

Southern Texas and southern Arizona to Columbia. (2), (3)

Season

January, April, October and November. (4)

See Also

Hypercompe oslari which is also found in southern Texas

Hypercompe scribonia found in most of the eastern United States

Print References

Druece, H., 1881. Lepidoptera: Heterocera. Biologia Centrali-American, 96

Hampson, L. 1901. Arctiadae and Agaristidae: Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. 3: 379.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (6)

Moths of Nicaragua

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.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

3.	Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 2B: Macro-Moths Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2004. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. xiv + 59 pp. 20 plates.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

6.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 April, 2012 - 12:44am
Last updated 30 November, 2013 - 1:54pm

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