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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Scoliopteryginae » Anomini » Dinumma » Dinumma deponens - Hodges#8554.5 (Dinumma deponens)

Species Dinumma deponens - Hodges#8554.5

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

Dinumma deponens, 8554.5 - Dinumma deponens

Dinumma deponens - Hodges#8554.5 - Dinumma deponens

Dinumma deponens - Hodges#8554.5 - Dinumma deponens - female

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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 Scoliopteryginae

Tribe Anomini

Genus Dinumma

Species deponens (Dinumma deponens - Hodges#8554.5)

Hodges Number

8554.5

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dinumma deponens Walker, 1858

Phylogenetic sequence # 930611.1 (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2013) included Dinumma deponens as the only member of the genus in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Hampson (1894) listed the wingspan as 40 mm.

Identification

mated female

Range

Dinumma deponens is becoming established in the southeastern states of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Introduced from Asia.

First U.S. record: ♀ collected near Morganton, Fannin County, Georgia, 15-VI-2012, Paul Dennehy & James Adams. (1)

Food

The larval host plant is Albizia - Mimosa. (BONAP)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (2)

Print References

Hampson, G.F., 1894. The Fauna of British India. Moths, 2: 355.

Lafontaine, J.D. & B C. Schmidt, 2013. Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 264: pp. 229, 233. (1)

Walker, 1858. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. 15: 1805.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Butterflies and Moths of North America

Works Cited

1.	Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. J. Donald Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt . 2013. ZooKeys 264: 227-236.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 July, 2013 - 12:23pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Mike Quinn, marcie oconnor, JoAnneRusso
Last updated 18 May, 2022 - 10:05pm

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