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Species Bleptina flaviguttalis - Hodges#8373

Bleptina flaviguttalis - Hodges#8373 - Bleptina flaviguttalis

Hodges#8373 - Bleptina flaviguttalis - Bleptina flaviguttalis

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Herminiinae (Litter Moths)

Genus Bleptina

Species flaviguttalis (Bleptina flaviguttalis - Hodges#8373)

Hodges Number

8373

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Bleptina flaviguttalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1912 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930524

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included 7 species of the genus Bleptina in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Barnes & McDunnough (1912) reported the wingspan as 24 mm. (1)

Identification

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)

Range

Arizona to Texas. (4), (5), (6)

Holotype ♂, Palmerlee, Cochise County, Arizona, United States.

Season

The adults are most common from June to September. (6)

Food

The larval host is uncertain but probably leaf litter as for the other members of the genus.

Print References

Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough, 1912. New species and genera of North American Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 44(4): 122. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (6)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (5)

Works Cited

1.	New species and genera of North American Lepidoptera (part 2) W. Barnes, J. McDunnough. 1912. The Canadian Entomologist, 44(4): 122-127.

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 Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

5.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 September, 2013 - 6:21pm
Last updated 7 September, 2013 - 11:28pm

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