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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Oncocnemidinae » Sympistis » Sympistis melalutea - Hodges#10107 (Sympistis melalutea)

Species Sympistis melalutea - Hodges#10107

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

Sympistis melalutea - Hodges #10107 - Sympistis melalutea - female

Sympistis melalutea? - Sympistis melalutea

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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 Oncocnemidinae

Genus Sympistis

Species melalutea (Sympistis melalutea - Hodges#10107)

Hodges Number

10107

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sympistis melalutea (Smith, 1899)

Oncocnemis melalutea Smith, 1899

Phylogenetic sequence # 931791 (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 176 species of the genus Sympistis in America north of Mexico. (1)

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2013) reinstated one species. (2)

Size

Wingspan about 30 mm.

Range

Holotype collected foothills near Denver, Colorado.

Season

July

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (3)

Print References

Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 40: 59-64. (1)

Lafontaine, J.D. & BC. Schmidt 2013. Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 264: 230, 234. (2)

Smith, J.B., 1889. Notes on Scotogramma and Oncocnemis with descriptions of new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 7: 39.

Walker, Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 168.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

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.	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.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 July, 2013 - 12:20am
Last updated 12 December, 2013 - 12:39pm

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