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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Matigramma » Matigramma obscurior - Hodges#8681 (Matigramma obscurior)

Species Matigramma obscurior - Hodges#8681

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

Matigramma obscurior - Hodges #8681 - Matigramma obscurior

Matigramma obscurior - Hodges#8681 - Matigramma obscurior - male

Matigramma obscurior - Hodges#8681 - Matigramma obscurior - female

Mystery Matigramma - Matigramma obscurior

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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 Matigramma

Species obscurior (Matigramma obscurior - Hodges#8681)

Hodges Number

8681

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Matigramma obscurior Franclemont & Todd, 1983

M. lanea Hampson, 1913

Numbers

There are seven Matigramma species found in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Forewing length 17-18 mm.(2)

Identification

The darkest and most evenly colored of the Matigramma species.(2)

Range

Southern Arizona, southern Texas (Cameron and Hidalgo counties).(2)

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Food

Larval host is unknown.

Print References

Franclemont, J.G. 1986. New species and new genera of Noctuids from Arizona, Texas, and Mexico: the genera Matigramma and Acritogramma (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Catocalinae). Journal Kansas Entomological Society 59(1): 144. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

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.	New species and new genera of noctuids from Arizona, Texas, and Mexico: the genera Matigramma and Acritogramma John G. Franclemont. 1986. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 59(1): 143-172.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 4 August, 2012 - 11:22am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 10:52pm

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