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Species Tarache tenuicula - Hodges#9135

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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 tenuicula (Tarache tenuicula - Hodges#9135)

Hodges Number

9135

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tarache tenuicula (Morrison, 1875)

Acontia nuicola Smith, 1900 (1)

Acontia meskei Smith, 1900

Tarache mescei Hampson, 1910

Graeperia carcharodonta Hampson, 1910

Phylogenetic sequence # 931341 (2)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 34 species of the genus Tarache in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Forewing length 10 mm.

Range

Texas. (3)

Moth Photographers Group includes Arizona records. (4)

Season

The main flight period appears to be May to September. (4), (3)

Print References

Hampson, G.F. 1910. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. London, 10: 740.

Morrison, H.K. 1875. List of a collection of Texas Noctuidae, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 17: 218.

Smith, J.B. 1900. Contributions toward a monograph of the Noctuidae of Boreal North America. Revision of the species of Acontia Ochs. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 27: 67. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Nearctica.com (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

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.	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.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 June, 2013 - 8:01pm
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin
Last updated 2 December, 2018 - 1:36pm

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