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Species Clostera inornata - Hodges#7897

Clostera apicalis 7901? - 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

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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.

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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