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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) » Phaegopterina » Leucanopsis » Leucanopsis lurida - Hodges#8217.2 (Leucanopsis lurida)

Species Leucanopsis lurida - Hodges#8217.2

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

Leucanopsis lurida? - Leucanopsis lurida

Leucanopsis perdentata - Leucanopsis lurida - male

Male, Leucanopsis lurida? - Leucanopsis lurida - male

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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 Phaegopterina

Genus Leucanopsis

Species lurida (Leucanopsis lurida - Hodges#8217.2)

Hodges Number

8217.2

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Leucanopsis lurida (Hy. Edwards, 1887)

Halisidota lurida otho Hy. Edwards, 1887

Euhalisidota otho Barnes, 1901

Phylogenetic sequence # 930378

Numbers

There are three species of the genus Leucanopsis in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Wingspan 52-55 mm.

Females slightly larger than males.

Identification

Barnes (1901) description as Euhalisidota otho available in print references.

Range

Southern Arizona.

Season

Adults fly July through September.

Food

The larval host is Quercus douglasii (blue oak)

See Also

Leucanopsis longa which is found in the southern states from Texas to Florida.

Pyrrharctia isabella

Leucanopsis perdentata *pinned adult at Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Barnes, W., 1901. Descriptions of some new species of North American Lepidoptera. The Canadaian Entomologist 33: 53.

Comstock, J.A., 1956. Brief notes on life histories of three Arizona moths. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences., 55(3): 181.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (4)

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.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

4.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 4 August, 2012 - 7:32pm
Last updated 4 February, 2014 - 4:55pm

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