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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Chamaecleini » Hemioslaria » Hemioslaria pima - Hodges#9824 (Hemioslaria pima)

Species Hemioslaria pima - Hodges#9824

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · 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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)
Tribe Chamaecleini
Genus Hemioslaria
Species pima (Hemioslaria pima - Hodges#9824)
Hodges Number
9824
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hemioslaria pima Barnes & Benjamin, 1924
Poole (1989) included Hemioslaria in the subfamily Amphipyrinae. (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 931762
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed Hemioslaria pima as the only member of the genus in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)
Size
Poole listed the forewing length: mean = 17.22 mm., n = 7 (n= number of specimens studied). (4)
Identification
Distinctive forewing.
Range
Poole reported Hemioslaria pima is known from the Santa Rita and Baboquivari Mountains of southern Arizona. (4)
Holotype ♂ labeled [USA]: Arizona, Pima County, Baboquivari Mountains, [USNM] United States National Museum, Washington. (1)
Season
The adults are most common from August to September. (4), (5)
Food
Poole states the larval host plant and immature stages are unknown. (4)
Print References
Barnes & Benjamin, 1924. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 5(3): 167.
Poole, R.W., 1995. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 26.1, p. 158; plate 4.54. (6)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (5)
Noctuidae of North America - (nearctica.com) (4)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (8)
Works Cited
1.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
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.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
4.Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 26.1. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae: Cuculliinae, Stiriinae, Psaphidinae.
Robert W. Poole. 1995. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
8.Moths of Southeast Arizona
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 18 August, 2013 - 8:38pm

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