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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Lichen Moths (Lithosiini) » Cisthenina » Cisthene » Cisthene dorsimacula - Hodges#8065 (Cisthene dorsimacula)

Species Cisthene dorsimacula - Hodges#8065

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

Cisthene dorsimacula? - Cisthene dorsimacula

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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 Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Lithosiini (Lichen Moths)

Subtribe Cisthenina

Genus Cisthene

Species dorsimacula (Cisthene dorsimacula - Hodges#8065)

Hodges Number

8065

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cisthene dorsimacula (Dyar, 1904)

Illice dorsimacula Dyar, 1904

Phylogenetic sequence # 930182

Numbers

The genus Cisthene includes 20 described species listed for America, north of Mexico. (1), (2)

Size

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length as 9 mm. (3)

Identification

Cisthene dorsimacula is dimorphic with the hindwing color of light pink or yellow. (3)

Range

Powell & Opler (2009) reported Cisthene dorsimacula is only found in southern California. (3)

Holotype ♂ collected in Los Angeles, California, United States

Season

Powell & Opler (2009) reported May to August, and October. (3)

Print References

Dyar, H.G., 1904. Descriptions of new forms of the genus Illice Walker. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 6(4): 199.

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America, plate 46, fig. 17; p. 265. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	A Revision of the Species of Cisthene Known to Occur North of the Mexican Border (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae) Carroll B. Knowlton. 1967. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 93(1): 41-100.

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.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 August, 2013 - 5:48pm

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