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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Chamaecleini » Aleptinoides » Aleptinoides ochrea - Hodges#9839 (Aleptinoides ochrea)

Species Aleptinoides ochrea - Hodges#9839

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Aleptinoides ochrea - Hodges #9839 - Aleptinoides ochrea - 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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)
Tribe Chamaecleini
Genus Aleptinoides
Species ochrea (Aleptinoides ochrea - Hodges#9839)
Hodges Number
9839
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Aleptinoides ochrea Barnes & McDunnough, 1912
Oslaria haematosticta Dyar, 1923
Phylogenetic sequence # 931731 (1)
Numbers
Aleptinoides ochrea is the only member of the genus listed for America, north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Barnes & McDunnough (1912) listed the wingspan as 19 mm.
Range
Western Texas, New Mexico. (2)
Lectotype ♂ collected in September, Deming, New Mexico.
Season
The adults appear to be most common from July to September.
Print References
Barnes & McDunnough, 1912. Fifty new species and varieties. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 1(5): 24, pl. 2, fig. 17.
Dyar, 1923, Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 11: 17.
Todd, E.L., 1961. Lectotype selection for and a synonym of Aleptinoides ochrea B. and McD. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 63(3): 191.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)
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.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 July, 2013 - 7:04pm

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