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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Phytometrini » Nychioptera » Nychioptera accola - Hodges#8486 (Nychioptera accola)

Species Nychioptera accola - Hodges#8486

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

Unid. Zanclognatha (?) - Nychioptera accola

Hemeroplanis? or something nearby - Nychioptera accola

Nychioptera accola? - Nychioptera accola

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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 Boletobiinae

Tribe Phytometrini

Genus Nychioptera

Species accola (Nychioptera accola - Hodges#8486)

Hodges Number

8486

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Nychioptera accola Franclemont, 1966 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930722

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed three species of the genus Nychioptera in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Franclemont (1966) listed the wingspan. (1)

♂ 18-21 mm.

♀ 20-21 mm.

Identification

Range

Arizona.

Holotype ♂ collected in Arizona, Santa Cruz County, Pena Blanca, 3950'.

Season

June to August. (3)

Print References

Franclemont, J.G., 1966. A new genus, Nychioptera, with descriptions of two new species and notes on the genus Hemeroplanis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 68(4); 297. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Works Cited

1.	A new genus, Nychioptera, with descriptions of two new species and notes on the genus Hemeroplanis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) John G. Franclemont. 1966. Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington 68: 295-306.

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 August, 2013 - 1:15am
Last updated 12 August, 2013 - 9:51am

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