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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Pygaerinae » Clostera » Clostera inornata - Hodges#7897 (Clostera inornata)

Species Clostera inornata - Hodges#7897

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Clostera apicalis 7901? - Clostera inornata - female Clostera sp. - Clostera inornata - female Clostera sp. 7 day old larva - Clostera inornata Clostera sp. 16 day old larva - Clostera inornata Clostera sp. 38 day old larva - Clostera inornata Noctuidae - Clostera inornata Clostera inornata Clostera inornata
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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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)
Subfamily Pygaerinae
Genus Clostera
Species inornata (Clostera inornata - Hodges#7897)
Hodges Number
7897
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Clostera inornata (Neumoegen, 1882)
Ichthyura inornata Neumoegen, 1882 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930005
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included eight species of the genus Clostera in America north of Mexico. (2)
Size
Neumoegen (1882) reported the wingspan as 35 mm. (1)
Identification
Determined by Bob Patterson.

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Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)
Range
California to New Mexico, and southern Texas; to Sonora, and Guadalajara, in Jalisco, Mexico. (4), (5), (6), (7)
Primary syntype collected in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, in NMNH.
Season
The adults appear to be most common in the months of January; June to September. (6), (7)
Food
Larvae reared on cottonwood and willow with the host plant information provided by local moth expert Noel McFarland. (8)
Life Cycle
Print References
Neumoegen, B., 1882. Some new beauties from from various parts of Arizona. Papilio, 2: 134. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (6)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (4)
Works Cited
1.Some new beauties from various parts of Arizona.
Berthold Neumoegen. 1882. Papilio 2(2): 133-135.
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.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
4.Moths of Southeast Arizona
5.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
6.North American Moth Photographers Group
7.Butterflies of North America
8.Clostera sp. 7 day old larva
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 August, 2013 - 11:56pm
Last updated 24 August, 2013 - 10:05pm

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