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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Nystaleinae » Symmerista » Symmerista zacualpana - Hodges#7955 (Symmerista zacualpana)

Species Symmerista zacualpana - Hodges#7955

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Symmerista zacualpana 7955 - Symmerista zacualpana - female

Symmerista sp. 2 day old larvae - Symmerista zacualpana

Symmerista sp. 9 day old larvae - Symmerista zacualpana

Symmerista sp. 40 day old larvae - Symmerista zacualpana

Symmerista sp. 59 day old larva - Symmerista zacualpana

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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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)

Subfamily Nystaleinae

Genus Symmerista

Species zacualpana (Symmerista zacualpana - Hodges#7955)

Hodges Number

7955

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Symmerista zacualpana (Draudt, 1932)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930131

Explanation of Names

Zacualpan is a town in Mexico.

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed five species of the genus Symmerista in America north of Mexico. (1), (2)

Identification

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)

Range

New Mexico to southern California; Mexico. (4), (5)

Holotype collected in Arizona; Santa Cruz County; Pena Blanca, Nogales, J.H. Hessel, 1967.

Season

The adults appear to be most common from June to October. (4)

Food

The larval host plant includes Quercus L. (oak).

Life Cycle

See Also

Symmerista are best determined by genitalia or DNA.

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the species of Symmerista (Huebner) know to occur north of the Mexican border (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae). J. G. Franclemont. 1946. The Canadian Entomologist, 78(5): 96-103.

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.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 31 July, 2013 - 11:54pm
Last updated 2 December, 2013 - 6:57pm

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