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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cuculliinae » Hooded Owlets (Cucullia) » Cucullia pulla - Hodges#10180 (Cucullia pulla)

Species Cucullia pulla - Hodges#10180

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · 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 Cuculliinae

Genus Cucullia (Hooded Owlets)

Species pulla (Cucullia pulla - Hodges#10180)

Hodges Number

10180

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cucullia pulla (Grote, 1881) (1)

Lathosea pulla Grote, 1881

syn. Cucullia spauldingi [Hodges #10182]

Phylogenetic sequence # 931538

Numbers

Cucullia has 36 described species in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Forewing length 14-20 mm. (3)

Identification

The original description as Lathosea pulla Grote, is available online in the print references below.

Range

California to Colorado and British Columbia. (4), (5)

Season

Adults are most often reported from January to June. (5)

Food

Larval host is Chrysothamnus spp. (rabbitbush). (6)

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1881. North American moths, with a preliminary catalogue of the species of the Hadena and Polia. Bulletin of the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories. 6(2): 270 .

Poole, R.W., 1995. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 26.1. p. 69, pl. 3.7-9. (3)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths

Moth Photographers Group

Nearctica.com

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Noctuoidea of Canada

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

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.	The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 26.1. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae: Cuculliinae, Stiriinae, Psaphidinae. Robert W. Poole. 1995. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

4.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	The Larvae of the Phalaenidae [Noctuidae] Samuel Ebb Crumb. 1956. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1135: 1-356.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 24 April, 2013 - 1:23am

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