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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Amphipyrinae » Psaphidini » Nocloina » Nocloa » Nocloa alcandra - Hodges#9799 (Nocloa alcandra)

Species Nocloa alcandra - Hodges#9799

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · 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 Amphipyrinae

Tribe Psaphidini

Subtribe Nocloina

Genus Nocloa

Species alcandra (Nocloa alcandra - Hodges#9799 )

Hodges Number

9799

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Nocloa alcandra (Druce, 1890)

Xanthia alcandra Druce, 1890

Phylogenetic sequence # 931583

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included nine species of the genus Nocloa in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Druce (1890) listed a wingspan of 1.5" (38.1 mm.).

Identification

Range

Southern Arizona south through Mexico and Baja California.

Holotype ♂ collected by H.H. Smith, October 1888, Tierra Colorada, in Guerrero, Mexico @ 2000'.

Season

The adults are most common from July to August. (2)

Food

The larval host plant is unknown. (2)

See Also

Basilodes chrysopis

Print References

Druce, Herbert, 1890. Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Central and South America. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 515.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

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.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 August, 2012 - 9:00pm
Last updated 18 August, 2013 - 12:34am

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