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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Rivulinae » Rivula » Rivula pusilla - Hodges#8404.1 (Rivula pusilla)

Species Rivula pusilla - Hodges#8404.1

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 Erebidae

Subfamily Rivulinae

Genus Rivula

Species pusilla (Rivula pusilla - Hodges#8404.1)

Hodges Number

8404.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rivula pusilla Möschler, 1890

Synonym

Rivula nigripuncta Schaus 1913

Phylogenetic sequence # 8404.1 (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed three species of the genus Rivula in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Sullivan (2009) listed the forewing length 8.2-10.2 mm. (2)

Identification

Sullivan (2009) in PDF. (2)

Range

Heppner (2003) reported the range to include Florida; Texas; West Indies; Mexico to Central America. (3)

Wagner et al. (2011) reported the species reaches the Gainesville area in Florida. (4)

Syntypes: two males from Puerto Rico in MNHU, Berlin. (5)

Season

Heppner (2003) reported April to December. (3)

Food

Heppner (2003) reported grasses including Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walter) Kuntze (St. Augustine grass). (3)

Sullivan (2009) reported grasses and sedges. (2)

Print References

Möschler, H.B. 1890. Lepidoptera Porto [Puerto] Rico. p. 234.

Schaus, W. 1878. A generic revision of the American moths of the subfamily Hypeninae with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 50. p. 276. (6)

Sullivan, J.B., 2009. A new species of Rivula Guenée from southeastern United States. In: Schmidt, B.C. & J.D. Lafontaine (Eds), Contributions to the Systematics of New World Macro-Moths. Zoo Keys 9: pp. 3, 8, 9; figs. 1, 9. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (7)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (9)

Works Cited

1.	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 .

2.	A New Species of Rivula (Guenée) Lepidoptera, Noctuidae from Southeastern United States J. Bolling Sullivan. 2009. Zoo Keys 9: 3-10.

3.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

4.	Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America David L. Wagner. 2011. Princeton University Press.

5.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

6.	A generic revision of the American moths of the subfamily Hypeninae, with descriptions of new genera and species William Schaus. 1916. Proceedings of The United States National Museum, 50: 259-399.

7.	North American Moth Photographers Group

8.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

9.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 July, 2013 - 2:20pm
Last updated 14 January, 2014 - 10:51pm

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