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Species Oligocentria delicata - Hodges#8020

Representative Images

Oligocentria? - Oligocentria delicata Oligocentria pallida - Oligocentria delicata Prepupa - Oligocentria delicata
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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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)
Subfamily Heterocampinae
Genus Oligocentria
Species delicata (Oligocentria delicata - Hodges#8020)

Hodges Number

8020

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Oligocentria delicata (Dyar, 1905)
Janassa lignicolor var. delicata Dyar, 1905

Explanation of Names

Oligocentria delicata (Dyar, 1905), n. comb. in Miller et al. (2021) (1), was formerly in the genus Ianassa, n. comb. in Becker (2014) (2) and in Oligocentria in the Hodges 1983 Checklist.

Range

AZ, southwestern NM. (1)
Type locality: Palmerlee, Cochise Co., AZ.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (3)
Barcode of Life (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.Noctuoidea, Notodontidae (Part 2, Conclusion): Heterocampinae, Nystaleinae, Dioptinae, Dicranurinae
Miller, J.S., D.L. Wagner, P.A. Opler & J.D. Lafontaine. 2021. The Moths of America north of Mexico, Fascicle 22.1B: 1-443.
2.Checklist of New World Notodontidae (Noctuoidea)
Becker, V.O. 2014. Lepidoptera Novae, 7(1): 1-40.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 6 March, 2013 - 3:37pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Steve Nanz, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 26 March, 2022 - 2:20pm

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