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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Melipotini » Boryzops » Boryzops purissima - Hodges#8643 (Boryzops purissima)

Species Boryzops purissima - Hodges#8643

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Boryzops purissima - Hodges #8643 - Boryzops purissima - 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 Melipotini
Genus Boryzops
Species purissima (Boryzops purissima - Hodges#8643)
Hodges Number
8643
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Boryzops purissima (Dyar, 1910)
Pucialia purissima (Dyar, 1910)
Iscadia purissima Dyar, 1910
Phylogenetic sequence # 930916
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed Boryzops purissima as the only member of the genus in America, north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Dyar (1910) reported a wingspan of 68 mm.
Range
Heppner (2003) reported the range to include Florida, Texas, West Indies, and Mexico. (2)
Season
Heppner (2003) reported adults in January, March to August, and October to December in Florida. (2)
Food
Heppner (2003) reported the host plant is unknown. (2)
Print References
Dyar, H.G., 1910. Descriptions of some new species and genera of Lepidoptera from Mexico. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 38: 252.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Moths of Jamaica
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.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 July, 2013 - 12:22am
Last updated 21 July, 2013 - 12:47am

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