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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Helia » Helia agna - Hodges#8657 (Helia agna)

Species Helia agna - Hodges#8657

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · 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 Erebinae
Tribe Omopterini
Genus Helia
Species agna (Helia agna - Hodges#8657)
Hodges Number
8657
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Helia agna (Druce) (1)
Selenis agna Druce 1890
Phylogenetic sequence # 930980.
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed Helia agna as the only species of the genus in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Wingspan average 28 mm.
Identification
Druce (1890) original description as Selenis agna in print references.
Range
Southern Texas to Central America
Strays to northern Texas. (2)
Remarks
Often seen at bait.
See Also
Zaleops umbrina
Print References
Druce, H. 1890. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Lepidoptera-Heterocera 1: 407.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
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.Moths of Dallas County, Texas
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 August, 2012 - 1:12am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 23 September, 2014 - 4:06pm

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