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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Eulepidotinae » Massala » Massala obvertens - Hodges#8586 (Massala obvertens)

Species Massala obvertens - Hodges#8586

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 Eulepidotinae

Genus Massala

Species obvertens (Massala obvertens - Hodges#8586)

Hodges Number

8586

Other Common Names

Tropical Massala Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Massala obvertens (Walker, 1858) (1)

Azeta obvertens Walker, 1858

Capnodes turtur (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) (2)

Massala larina (Druce, 1890)

Phylogenetic sequence # 931088

Numbers

The only named species of Massala in America north of Mexico. (1)

Identification

Range

South Texas, Florida to South America. (3), (4), (2)

Strays north in the United States.

Type locality: Dominican Republic. (2)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Heppner has Florida records for January, March to June, August to September, November. (4)

Texas has November records. (3)

Food

Host is unknown. (4)

See Also

Compare to others on the archived photos of living moths and pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Walker, 1858. Catalog of the British Museum 15: 1580.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)

Moths of Belize

James Adams, Dalton State University

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

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 8 March, 2013 - 10:22am
Last updated 22 May, 2013 - 3:44pm

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