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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) » Apameini » Hydraecia » Hydraecia obliqua - Hodges#9512 (Hydraecia obliqua)

Species Hydraecia obliqua - Hodges#9512

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 Apameini

Genus Hydraecia

Species obliqua (Hydraecia obliqua - Hodges#9512)

Hodges Number

9512

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hydraecia obliqua (Harvey, 1876) (1)

Gortyna obliqua Harvey, 1876

Crabo, et al (2013) included as synonyms. (1)

Gortyna ximena Barnes and Benjamin 1924

Gortyna columbia Barnes and Benjamin 1924

Phylogenetic sequence # 932456

syn. Hydraecia ximena (Barnes & Benjamin, 1924)

syn. Hydraecia columbia (Barnes & Benjamin, 1924)

Numbers

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

Size

The forewing length is 16-24 mm

Identification

Range

Crabo, et al (2013) reported the range to include British Columbia to California, and stated the inland to Colorado population is another distinct species. (1)

Season

The adults appear to be most common in the months of July to October. (3)

Food

Crumb (1956) reported Lupinus spp. (lupine) Fabaceae. (4), (5)

The adults have been collected at sugar baits. (5)

See Also

Hydraecia medialis

Print References

Crabo, L.G., Davis, M., Hammond, P., Mustelin, T., Shepard, J., 2013. Five new species and three new subspecies of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Northwestern North America, with notes on Chytolita Grote (Erebidae) and Hydraecia Guenée (Noctuidae). ZooKeys 40:, p. 107; figs. 21–23. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Pacific Northwest Moths (5)

University of California, Berkeley

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	Five new species and three new subspecies of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from ..... Lars G. Crabo, Melanie Davis, Paul Hammond, Tomas Mustelin, Jon Shepard. 2013. ZooKeys 264: 85–123.

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	The Larvae of the Phalaenidae [Noctuidae] Samuel Ebb Crumb. 1956. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1135: 1-356.

5.	Pacific Northwest Moths

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 28 August, 2013 - 9:41am
Additional contributions by A. Hendrickson
Last updated 4 February, 2017 - 8:35am

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