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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Agrotina » Dichagyris » Dichagyris lobato - Hodges#10884 (Dichagyris lobato)

Species Dichagyris lobato - Hodges#10884

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · 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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Noctuini

Subtribe Agrotina

Genus Dichagyris

Species lobato (Dichagyris lobato - Hodges#10884)

Hodges Number

10884

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dichagyris lobato (Barnes, 1904)

Pseudoglaea lobato Barnes, 1904

Richia lobato (Barnes, 1904)

Phylogenetic sequence # 933247

Size

Barnes (1904) listed the wingspan as 44 mm.

Identification

Barnes (1904) description is available online in the print references.

The legs are whitish inside turning reddish on the outer side.

Forewing fringe has a faint brown wavy line at the base.

Hindwing is white and the inner margin has long yellowish hairs tinged in red.

Range

Arizona. (1), (2)

Holotype collected in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona.

Season

Adults are most common from May to September. (2)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Barnes, W. 1904. New species of North American Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 36: 237.

Lafontaine, J.D., 2004. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.1. p. 105, pl. D.14-15. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part), Noctuinae (Part-Agrotini), Fascicle 27.1 J. Donald Lafontaine. 2004. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 June, 2013 - 8:51pm
Last updated 7 December, 2013 - 9:47pm

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