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Species Focillidia texana - Hodges#8730

Focillidia texana - Hodges#8730 (Focillidia texana) - Focillidia texana

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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 Poaphilini

Genus Focillidia

Species texana (Focillidia texana - Hodges#8730)

Hodges Number

8730

Other Common Names

Southern focillidia moth.

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Focillidia texana Hampson, 1913 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930967 (2)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included two species of the genus Focillidia in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Hampson (1913) listed the wingspan as 28-36 mm.

Identification

The original description is available online in the print references listed below.

Range

Pogue & Ferguson (1998) reported the range to include Arizona, Texas and Florida. (3)

Moth Photographers Group includes Georgia. (4)

Focillidia texana occurs outside the United States to Central America.

Holotype ♀, USA, Location unknown, BMNH. (British Museum of Natural History, London)

Season

The flight period appears to be May to September. (4)

Food

The host plant is unknown.

Print References

Hampson, 1913. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, p. 148.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Lepbarcoding.org

Works Cited

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

2.	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 .

3.	A revision of the cypress-feeding moths of the genus Cutina ( Walker) Lepidoptera: Noctuidae M. G. Pogue, D. C. Ferguson . 1998. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 100(2): 331-352.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 1 September, 2012 - 11:37pm
Last updated 9 September, 2013 - 10:27am

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