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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Amphipyrinae » Psaphidini » Nocloina » Nocloa » Nocloa cordova - Hodges#9796 (Nocloa cordova)

Species Nocloa cordova - Hodges#9796

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

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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 Amphipyrinae

Tribe Psaphidini

Subtribe Nocloina

Genus Nocloa

Species cordova (Nocloa cordova - Hodges#9796)

Hodges Number

9796

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

"Nocloa" cordova (Barnes, 1907)

Xanthia cordova Barnes, 1907

Phylogenetic sequence # 931580 (1)

Explanation of Names

This species is currently placed in Nocloa, but does not belong there. It requires a new genus according to Robert Poole. (2)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included nine species of the genus Nocloa in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Barnes (1907) reported a wingspan of 25 mm.

Poole reports the forewing length mean = 10.96 mm. (n = 10). (2)

Identification

Range

Arizona. (3), (2),

Poole states Nocloa cordova is known in the United States from the counties of Santa Cruz and Pima in southern Arizona. He also mentions the species has been collected in Sonora, Mexico.

Holotype ♂, ♀, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona.

Season

Poole reports July, August, and September. (2)

Food

Poole reports the larval host plant and immature stages are unknown. (2)

See Also

Nocloa nanata

Print References

Barnes, Wm., 1907. New species of North American Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 39: 65.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com) (2)

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.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 August, 2013 - 6:12pm
Additional contributions by Kyhl Austin
Last updated 8 January, 2017 - 7:13pm

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