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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) » Hadenini » Sideridis » Sideridis artesta - Hodges#10263 (Sideridis artesta)

Species Sideridis artesta - Hodges#10263

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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 Hadenini

Genus Sideridis

Species artesta (Sideridis artesta - Hodges#10263)

Hodges Number

10263

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sideridis artesta (Smith, 1903) (1)

Trichoclea artesta (Smith, 1903)

Mamestra artesta Smith, 1903 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932905

Size

Smith (1903) listed the wingspan as 35-44 mm. (2)

Identification

The Smith (1903) and Hampson (1905) descriptions are available in the print references below. (2)

Determined by Chuck Harp.

Range

Alberta to Colorado, east to New York and Quebec.

Season

Sideridis artesta adults appear to be most common from May to July. (3)

Food

The larval host plant and immature stages are unknown.

Remarks

Listed on the Ohio's Endangered Species list (2012).

See Also

Sideridis maryx

Sideridis rosea

Melanchra picta

Print References

Hampson, G.F., 1905. Noctuidae. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 5: 237.

Smith, J.B., 1903. New noctuids for 1903, No. 4, with notes on certain described species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 29: 197. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Moths of Canada

Works Cited

1.	An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada Gregory R. Pohl, Gary G. Anweiler, B. Christian Schmidt, Norbert G. Kondla. 2010. ZooKeys 38: 1–549.

2.	New noctuids for 1903, No. 4, with notes on certain described species John B. Smith. 1903. Transactions of The American Entomological Society 29(3): 191-224.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 27 August, 2013 - 6:41pm
Last updated 27 August, 2013 - 7:42pm

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