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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Oncocnemidinae » Sympistis » Sympistis tenuifascia - Hodges#10080 (Sympistis tenuifascia)

Species Sympistis tenuifascia - Hodges#10080

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

Sympistis tenuifascia - Hodges #10080 - Sympistis tenuifascia

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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 Oncocnemidinae

Genus Sympistis

Species tenuifascia (Sympistis tenuifascia - Hodges#10080)

Hodges Number

10080

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sympistis tenuifascia (Smith, 1888)

Synonym Sympistis mus [Hodges #10080.1]

Phylogenetic sequence # 931807 (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 176 species of the genus Sympistis in America north of Mexico. (1)

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2013) reinstated one species. (2)

Size

Forewing length 9-10 mm. (3)

Identification

Determined by Gary Anweiler.

Habitat

Usually found near the tree line at higher elevations.

Season

Adults fly July to early September.

Food

Larval host is unknown.

See Also

Sympistis parvanigra

Print References

Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 40: 59-64. (1)

Lafontaine, J.D. & BC. Schmidt 2013. Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 264: 230, 234. (2)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (3)

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD (5)

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.	Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. J. Donald Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt . 2013. ZooKeys 264: 227-236.

3.	Pacific Northwest Moths

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 September, 2012 - 3:32pm
Last updated 12 December, 2013 - 1:14pm

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