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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Ctenuchina » Ctenucha » Veined Ctenucha - Hodges#8260 (Ctenucha venosa)

Species Ctenucha venosa - Veined Ctenucha - Hodges#8260

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Moth - Ctenucha venosa Unknown Bug - Ctenucha venosa Veined Ctenucha Moth - Ctenucha venosa Ctenucha venosa Insect Mostly solid black with yellow stripes and red head - Ctenucha venosa Veined Ctenucha? - Ctenucha venosa Arizona Moth - Ctenucha venosa Ctenucha venosa - male
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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 Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)
Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)
Subtribe Ctenuchina
Genus Ctenucha
Species venosa (Veined Ctenucha - Hodges#8260)
Hodges Number
8260
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ctenucha venosa Walker, 1854
Philoros venosa Godman & Salvin, 1884
Phylogenetic sequence # 930433
Numbers
Ctenucha has six species in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Forewing length 14-16 mm. (2)
Identification
Range
Southern Nevada and Arizona to Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas; Mexico. (3), (4), (5), (2), (6), (7)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Several generations, April through November. (2)
Food
Larval host plants include grasses.
Remarks
Sometimes abundant at lights but often found during the day. (2)
See Also
Ctenucha cressonana is very similar but location and flight time can be used.
C. cressonana has one flight from May-July and is in the higher mountain elevations.
Print References
Druce, H. 1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana Lepidoptera: Heterocera, 1: 82
Hampson, G.F. 1898. Catalogue of the Syntomidae in the collection of the British Museum. Cat. Lep. Phalaenae British Museum. 1: 528
Holland, W.J. 1914. The Butterfly Book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. p.101, pl.13, f.20. (8) , (9)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl.49.2, p.274 (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (5)
Moths of Dallas County, Texas(4) - large photo of pinned adult.
Texas A&M University - large photo of pinned adult by Ed Knudson (Texas Lepidoptera Survey)
lepbarcoding.org - collection map and photos of pinned adults.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (10)
Butterflies and Moths of North America
Texas Lep Information - Mike Quinn
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.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
3.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
4.Moths of Dallas County, Texas
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)
7.Assessment of insects, especially moths (Lepidoptera), of the White Sands National Monument
Eric H. Metzler. 2011. Western National Parks Association.
8.The Moth Book
W.J. Holland. 1968. Dover.
9.The Moth Book
W. J. Holland. 1922. Doubleday, Page & Company.
10.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 7 September, 2006 - 7:05am
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 14 June, 2013 - 9:38am

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