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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Eriopygini » Lacinipolia » Lacinipolia basiplaga - Hodges#10396 (Lacinipolia basiplaga)

Species Lacinipolia basiplaga - Hodges#10396

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · 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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Eriopygini
Genus Lacinipolia
Species basiplaga (Lacinipolia basiplaga - Hodges#10396)
Hodges Number
10396
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lacinipolia basiplaga (Smith, 1905)
Mamestra basiplaga Smith, 1905 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 933043
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included 64 species of the genus Lacinipolia in America north of Mexico.(2)
Size
Smith (1905) listed the wingspan as 28-29 mm. (1)
Identification
Determined by Hugh McGuinness
Range
Arizona. (3)
Syntypes labeled Chiricahua Mountains, Huachuca Mountains, "So. Arizona", Arizona. (4)
Season
The adults appear to be most common from July to August. (5)
Food
Godfrey (1972) reported the following host plants. (6), (7)
Viguiera multiflora (Showy Goldeneye).
Bidens sp. (aster family).
Convolvulus sp. (bindweed).
See Also
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (5)
Print References
Smith, J.B., 1905. New species of Noctuidae for 1905, No. 3. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 13: 201. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (5)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona - - photo (3)
Works Cited
1.New species of Noctuidae for 1905, No. 3
John B Smith. 1905. Journal of The New York Entomological Society, 13: 188--211.
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 Southeast Arizona
4.The noctuid type material of John B. Smith (Lepidoptera)
E. L. Todd. 1982. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1645: 1-228.
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.A Review and Reclassification of Larvae of the Subfamily Hadeninae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) of America North of Mexico
George L. Godfrey. 1972. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1450: 1-265.
7.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
8.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 22 August, 2013 - 7:37pm
Last updated 23 August, 2013 - 10:33am

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