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Species Goniocarsia electrica - Hodges#8580

Goniocarsia electrica - Hodges #8580 - Goniocarsia electrica - male

Texas SE Gulf Coast - Goniocarsia electrica

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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 Eulepidotinae

Genus Goniocarsia

Species electrica (Goniocarsia electrica - Hodges#8580)

Hodges Number

8580

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Goniocarsia electrica (Schaus, 1894)

Thermesia electrica Schaus, 1894

Phylogenetic sequence # 931080 (1)

Numbers

Goniocarsia electrica is the only member of the genus listed for America, north of Mexico. (2), (1)

Size

Schaus (1894) reported a wingspan of 38 mm.

Identification

Blanchard & Knudson (1985) noted the adults are medium brown with a violet tinge, and highly variable. Postmedial line nearly white. (3)

Range

Western and southern Texas; Mexico. (3)

Green Gulch, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, 7-X-66, 1 female, collected A. & M.E. Blanchard, Det. E. Todd. (3)

Mission, Hidalgo County, Texas 22-XI-2009, Charles W. Bordelon, Jr.

Season

October to November records for Texas.

Food

Schaus (1894), Blanchard & Knudson (1985) did not describe immature stages or mention host plant. (3)

Print References

Blanchard, A. & E.C. Knudson, 1985. New U.S. records and other interesting moths from Texas. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 39(1): 4, fig. 14. (3)

Schaus, W., 1894. New species of Noctuidae from tropical America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 21: 244.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

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.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

3.	New U.S. records and other interesting moths from Texas André Blanchard, Edward C. Knudson. 1985. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 39(1): 1-8.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 18 July, 2013 - 1:42am
Last updated 19 July, 2013 - 9:56am

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