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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 obliqua - Hodges#11196 (Schinia obliqua)

Species Schinia obliqua - Hodges#11196

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · 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 obliqua (Schinia obliqua - Hodges#11196 )

Hodges Number

11196

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schinia obliqua Smith, 1883

Phylogenetic sequence # 932167 (1)

Identification

Revised description in PDF. (2)

Range

California to Colorado and western Texas. (3), (2)

The range of Schinia unimacula may overlap in central Arizona.

Moth Photographers Group map

Season

Adults fly July through September. (2)

Food

Larval host is unknown. (2)

Life Cycle

Unknown. (2)

See Also

Schinia unimacula, forewing subterminal band is reduced to a dark subapical patch and becoming bolder near the inner margin. The band is washed out across the wing middle.

S. unimacula is found from southern California across northern Arizona to Colorado and north to Washington.(2)

Print References

Hampson, 1903. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. p. 82.

Pogue, M.G., & C.E. Harp 2003. Revised status of Schinia unimacula Smith including morphological comparisons with Schinia obliqua Smith.(2)

Smith, J.B. 1883. Synopsis of the North American Heliothinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 10: 229.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (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.	Revised status of Schinia unimacula Smith including morphological comparisons with Schinia obliqua Smith Michael G. Pogue & Charles E. Harp. 2003. Magnolia Press Zootaxa 226: 1-8.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 August, 2012 - 4:55pm
Last updated 5 April, 2014 - 3:32pm

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