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Species Lesmone fufius - Hodges#8652

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Lesmone fufius - Hodges #8652 - Lesmone fufius - male
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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 Erebinae
Tribe Omopterini
Genus Lesmone
Species fufius (Lesmone fufius - Hodges#8652)

Hodges Number

8652

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lesmone fufius (Schaus, 1894)
Bendis fufius Schaus, 1894
Moved from Noctuidae (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930971

Range

Southern Texas. (2)

Season

October

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.Revised higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera)
J. Donald Lafontaine, Michael Fibigera. 2006. The Canadian Entomologist, 138(5): 610-635.
2.Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 2B: Macro-Moths
Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2004. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. xiv + 59 pp. 20 plates.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 July, 2013 - 12:12am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 20 October, 2013 - 8:13pm

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