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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 » Agrotina » Anicla » Anicla beata - Hodges#10904  (Anicla beata)

Species Anicla beata - Hodges#10904

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Moth, dorsal - Anicla beata - male moth - Anicla beata Anicla beata Anicla beata
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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 Agrotina
Genus Anicla
Species beata (Anicla beata - Hodges#10904 )
Hodges Number
10904
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Anicla beata (Grote, 1883) (1)
Euagrotis beata (Grote, 1883) (2)
Agrotis beata Grote, 1883 (54).
Phylogenetic sequence # 933225
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 15 species of the genus Anicla in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Wingspan average 35 mm. (54)
Identification
Original description online as Agrotis beata Grote. (54).
Range
Arizona to western Texas and north to Wyoming. (3), (4)
Mexico. (5)
Type locality: USA: New Mexico, Las Vegas, near Hot Springs. (5)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Most records are from May through October. (3)
See Also
Compare to others on the archived photos of living moths and pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Grote, A.R. 1883. The moths of New Mexico. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 5(11). (54). (PDF or read online)
Lafontaine, J.D., 2004. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.1: p. 58; pl. B.34-36.(2)
Lafontaine J.D., & B.C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 99.(1)
Poole, R.W. 1989. Noctuidae: Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118).(5)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Barcode of Life (BOLD)
E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum (University of Alberta)
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.The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part), Noctuinae (Part-Agrotini), Fascicle 27.1
J. Donald Lafontaine. 2004. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.Assessment of insects, especially moths (Lepidoptera), of the White Sands National Monument
Eric H. Metzler. 2011. Western National Parks Association.
5.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 February, 2013 - 1:53pm
Additional contributions by Steve Morris
Last updated 28 January, 2023 - 10:00pm

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