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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Noctuina » Abagrotis » Abagrotis vittifrons - Hodges#11016 (Abagrotis vittifrons)

Species Abagrotis vittifrons - Hodges#11016

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

Noctuidae: Abagrotis vittifrons - Abagrotis vittifrons

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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Noctuini

Subtribe Noctuina

Genus Abagrotis

Species vittifrons (Abagrotis vittifrons - Hodges#11016)

Hodges Number

11016

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Abagrotis vittifrons (Grote, 1864) (1)

Noctua vittifrons Grote, 1864

Phylogenetic sequence # 933655

Size

Forewing length 13-15 mm.(2)

Range

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Season

Adults fly from April to early November.(2)

Food

Larval host and life history is unknow.(2)

Print References

Buckett, J.S. 1968. Revision of the Nearctic moth genus Abagrotis Smith with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part 1. (3)

Buckett, J.S. 1968. Revision of the Nearctic moth genus Abagrotis Smith with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part 2. (1)

Buckett, J.S. 1969. Revision of the Nearctic moth genus Abagrotis Smith with descriptions of new species. (4)

Grote, A.R. 1864. Descriptions of new North American Lepidoptera no. 5. Proceedings Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 3 : 527 , pl. 5, f. 6.

Lafontaine, J. D., 1998. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.3: p. 216; pl. 6.1-2.(5)

Powell, J. A., and P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. pl. 58.36, p. 317.(2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

University of Alberta E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the Nearctic moth genus Abagrotis Smith with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part 2. John S. Buckett. 1968. California Department Of Agriculture: Occasional Papers 14: 1-16.

2.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

3.	Revision of the Nearctic moth genus Abagrotis Smith with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part 1. John S. Buckett. 1968. California Department Of Agriculture: Occasional Papers 12: 1-21.

4.	Revision of the Nearctic moth genus Abagrotis Smith with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Part 5. John S. Buckett. 1969. California Department Of Agriculture: Occasional Papers 17: 1-27.

5.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuiodea, Noctuinae, Noctuini (Part), Fascicle 27.3 J. Donald LaFontaine. 1998. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 November, 2012 - 6:22pm
Last updated 18 May, 2013 - 4:14pm

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