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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Phytometrini » Graylet Moths (Hyperstrotia) » Hyperstrotia aetheria - Hodges#9036 (Hyperstrotia aetheria)

Species Hyperstrotia aetheria - Hodges#9036

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Hyperstrotia nana - Hyperstrotia aetheria

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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 Boletobiinae

Tribe Phytometrini

Genus Hyperstrotia (Graylet Moths)

Species aetheria (Hyperstrotia aetheria - Hodges#9036)

Hodges Number

9036

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hyperstrotia aetheria (Grote(1), 1879)

Thalpochares aetheria Grote, 1879 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930728

Range

Heppner (2003) listed the range as Georgia and Florida to Texas. (3), (4)

Moth Photographers Group extends the range to Maryland. (5), (6)

Season

Adults are most common from March to August. (4)

Food

Heppner (2003) listed the larval host plant as unknown. (4)

See Also

Hyperstrotia n. sp., mentioned in Lafontaine & Schmidt (2015), p. 136 (7), is currently indistinguishable from H. aetheria except by barcode. (paraphrased from comments in pers. email from Don Lafontaine.)

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1879. The North American Entomologist, 1: 47. (2)

Hampson, G.F. 1910. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the collection of the British Museum, 10: 559.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

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

2.	The North American Entomologist Augustus Radcliffe Grote . 1879. Reinecke & Zesch.

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.	South Carolina Moth Species

7.	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.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 10 June, 2013 - 8:59pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 21 February, 2017 - 4:45am

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