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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Elousa » Elousa albicans - Hodges#8661.1 (Elousa albicans)

Species Elousa albicans - Hodges#8661.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Elousa albicans - Hodges #8661.1 - Elousa albicans - 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 Elousa

Species albicans (Elousa albicans - Hodges#8661.1)

Hodges Number

8661.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Elousa albicans Walker, [1858]

Lafontaine & Fibiger (2006) placed in Erebidae, formerly of the Noctuidae family. (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930984

Numbers

Elousa albicans is the only member of the genus listed for America, north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Dickel (1991) reported a wingspan of 26 mm. (3)

Range

Heppner (2003) listed the range to include Florida; West Indies. (4)

First recorded in Florida, Monroe County, No Name Key, 1-IV-1984, Det. M.S. Adams. (3)

Season

Dickel (1991) and Heppner (2003) reported Elousa albicans as a stray in Florida with records in April. (4)

Food

Heppner (2003) reported the host plant is unknown. (4)

See Also

Compare on the plates of Moth Photographers Group. (5)

Print References

Dickel, T.S., 1991. New records of Noctuidae moths from Florida. Tropical Lepidoptera 2(1): pp. 54, 55, 57; fig. 14. (3)

Walker, F. 1858. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 13: 1118.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	Revised higher classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) J. Donald Lafontaine, Michael Fibigera. 2006. The Canadian Entomologist, 138(5): 610-635.

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.	New records of Noctuidae moths from Florida Terhune S. Dickel. 1991. Tropical Lepidoptera 2(1): 53-58.

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

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 July, 2013 - 9:21pm
Last updated 21 July, 2013 - 11:01pm

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