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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Flower Moths (Schinia) » Schinia biforma - Hodges#11125 (Schinia biforma)

Species Schinia biforma - Hodges#11125

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · 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 Heliothinae

Genus Schinia (Flower Moths)

Species biforma (Schinia biforma - Hodges#11125)

Hodges Number

11125

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia biforma Smith, 1906

Phylogenetic sequence # 932143 (1)

Size

Wingspan 19-21 mm. (2), (Smith)

Identification

Smith (1906) original description is in print references.

Range

Texas(3) and New Mexico north to Colorado and Oklahoma(4). (2)

Holotype from Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

March to May records. (2)

Food

The larval host is Amblyolepis setigera DC. (huisache daisy).

See Also

Schinia siren

Schinia miniana

Print References

Pogue, M.G., Ooellette, G.D & C.E. Harp, 2013. A revision of the Schinia volupia (Fitch) species complex (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae). Zootaxa, 3716(2): 157-191. (5)

Smith, J.B. 1906. New Noctuidae for 1906. No. 1. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 14: 21.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Lepbarcoding.org

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

3.	Moths of Dallas County, Texas

4.	Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)

5.	A revision of the Schinia volupia (Fitch) species complex (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae) Michael G. Pogue, Gary D. Ooellette, Charles E. Harp. 2013. Zootaxa, 3716(2): 157-191.

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 24 May, 2012 - 12:26am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 6 December, 2014 - 9:47pm

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