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Species Aleptina clinopetes - Hodges#9072.1

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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 Condicinae
Genus Aleptina
Species clinopetes (Aleptina clinopetes - Hodges#9072.1)
Hodges Number
9072.1
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Aleptina clinopetes (Dyar, 1920)
Bryocodia clinopetes Dyar, 1920 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 931636
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed five described species of the genus Aleptina in America north of Mexico. (2)
Size
Dyar (1920) listed the wingspan as 22 mm. (1)
Identification
Dyar (1920) description in PDF or view online. (1)
Range
Western Texas to Arizona(3); Mexico.
Holotype ♀ from Venadio, Sinaloa, Mexico. (1)
Season
August to October.
Print References
Dyar, H.G., 1920. New Lepidoptera, chiefly from Mexico, with synonymic notes. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 8: 192. (1)
Metzler, E.H. & G.S. Forbes, 2011. The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 3. A new species of Aleptina Dyar, 1902 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae, Psaphidini). ZooKeys 149: 129; figs. 5, 6, 10. (4)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (5)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (3)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
Works Cited
1.New Lepidoptera, chiefly from Mexico, with synonymic notes
H. G. Dyar. 1920. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 8: 187-198.
2.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 .
3.Moths of Southeast Arizona
4.The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 3. A new species of ...
Eric H. Metzler, Gregory S. Forbes. 2011. ZooKeys, 149: 125–133,.
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 July, 2013 - 2:38pm
Last updated 5 December, 2014 - 9:32pm

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