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Species Caradrina mona - Hodges#9658

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Caradrina mona - Hodges #9658 - Caradrina mona
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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 Caradrinini
Subtribe Caradrinina
Genus Caradrina
Species mona (Caradrina mona - Hodges#9658)

Hodges Number

9658

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Caradrina mona (Barnes & McDunnough, 1912)
Platyperigea mona (Barnes & McDunnough, 1912) (1), (2)
Athetis (Caradrina) mona Barnes & McDunnough, 1912
Phylogenetic sequence # 932262 (2)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included ten species of the genus Caradrina in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Barnes & McDunnough (1912) listed a wingspan of 22 mm.
Crumb (1956) reported the larva mature to about 20 mm. (3)

Identification

Barnes & McDunnough (1912) description of the adult is available to read online in the print references below.
Crumb (1956) described the larva. (3)

Range

Arizona and California to Washington and Montana. (4), (5), (6)
Holotype ♀, California, San Diego County, Witch Creek, USNM (United States National Museum). (7)

Season

The adults have been recorded in the months of May to October. (5)
Brown & Bash (1997) reported August to September in southern California. (6)

Food

Crumb (1956) reported larvae were collected from dead leaves. (3)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (5)

Print References

Barnes & McDunnough, 1912. New species and genera of North American Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 44: 56.
Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt, 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 40: 73, 146.415. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)

Works Cited

1.Revision of the genus Caradrina Ochsenheimer, 1816, with notes on other genera of the tribus Caradrini (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
Hermann H. Hacker. 2004. Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie, 10.
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.The Larvae of the Phalaenidae [Noctuidae]
Samuel Ebb Crumb. 1956. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1135: 1-356.
4.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.The Lepidoptera of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar: Calculating faunal similarity among sampling sites and ...
John W. Brown, Katherine Bash. 1997. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 36: 45-78.
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 23 August, 2013 - 6:57pm
Last updated 23 August, 2013 - 11:04pm

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