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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Nolid Moths (Nolidae) » Collomeninae » Collomena » Collomena inflexa - Hodges#8982 (Collomena inflexa)

Species Collomena inflexa - Hodges#8982

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

Prominent moth at blacklight (Notodontidae) - Collomena inflexa

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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 Nolidae (Nolid Moths)

Subfamily Collomeninae

Genus Collomena

Species inflexa (Collomena inflexa - Hodges#8982)

Hodges Number

8982

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Collomena inflexa (Morrison, 1875) (1)

Laphygma inflexa Morrison, 1875

Laphygma filifera of authors not Walker, 1857 (1)

Numbers

The only named species of Collomena in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Walker (1857) reported the wingspan 28 mm.

Identification

Range

Georgia to Florida; West Indies. (3), (4)

Central America. (5)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Heppner (2003) reported the adults fly year round in Florida. (4)

Food

Heppner (2003) reported the host was unknown. (4)

Remarks

"931156 Collomena inflexa – The species that occurs in Florida is Collomena inflexa (Morrison, 1875), stat. rev. (Type-locality: Jacksonville, Florida). It was treated as a synomym of Collomena filifera (Walker, 1857) (Type-locality: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic). The two species differ in the configuration of the eversible antler-like coremata on the valves, and by 2.5% in their barcode sequences." (1)

Print References

Morrison, H.K. 1875. Notes on the Noctuidae, with descriptions of certain new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 27: 65

Walker, 1857. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. p. 170.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6) (As of 2016, this is the page for Collomena filifera which also contains images of

C. inflexa. The BIN for C. inflexa is BOLD:ABA1156.)

Works Cited

1.	Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico III Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt. 2015. ZooKeys 527: 127-147.

2.	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 .

3.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

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

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 March, 2013 - 8:15pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 2 February, 2017 - 1:44pm

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