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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Tarache » Tarache arida - Hodges#9150 (Tarache arida)

Species Tarache arida - Hodges#9150

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · 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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)
Tribe Acontiini
Genus Tarache
Species arida (Tarache arida - Hodges#9150)
Hodges Number
9150
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tarache arida (Smith, 1900)
Acontia arida Smith, 1900 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 931360 (2)
Size
Forewing length 9 mm. (3)
Identification
The original description as Acontia arida Smith, and the Hampson (1910) revised description as Tarache arida are both available online in the print references below. (1)
Range
Southern California, Nevada, and Utah to western Texas. (4), (5), (6)
Colorado records uncertain. (7), (3)
There is one Oregon record which is possibly mislabeled or misidentified. (8)
Season
Adults are most often reported from March to August. (6), (3)
Food
Larval host is unknown. (3)
See Also
Compare on the pinned plates of
nearctica.com
and
Moth Photographers Group
Print References
Hampson, G.F., 1910. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. 10: 751.
Smith, J.B., 1900. Revision of the species of Acontia Ochs. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 27(1): 73. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (6)
Noctuidae of North America - nearctica.com (3)
Pacific Northwest Moths (8)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (9)
Works Cited
1.Contributions toward a monograph of the Noctuidae of boreal North America. Revision of the species of Acontia (Ochs)
John B. Smith. 1900. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 27: 47-84.
2.Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico
J. Donald Lafontaine & B. Christian Schmidt. 2011. Zookeys, 149.1805.
3.Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)
4.Moths of Southeast Arizona
5.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
6.North American Moth Photographers Group
7.Survey of Utah Moth Species
8.Pacific Northwest Moths
9.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 April, 2013 - 10:17pm
Last updated 26 April, 2014 - 6:27pm

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