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Species Trachea delicata - Hodges#9626

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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 Dypterygiini
Genus Trachea
Species delicata (Trachea delicata - Hodges#9626)
Hodges Number
9626
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trachea delicata (Grote (1), 1874)
Hadena delicata Grote, 1874 (2)
Phylogenetic sequence # 932280 (3)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed Trachea delicata as the only member of the genus in America north of Mexico.(3)
Size
Wingspan 36-38 mm.
Grote (1874) listed a wingspan of 38 mm. (2)
Identification
Grote (1874) original description as Hadena delicata is online and linked in the print references. (2)
Range
Moth Photographers Group map (4)
Season
The main flight period is May to September. (4)
Food
Reared on Dock - Rumex (Sam Jaffe)
Print References
Grote, A.R., 1874. Remarks on North American Noctuidae with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 5: 92. (2)
Grote, A.R., 1877. Notes on Noctuidae. The Canadian Entomologist 9: 197.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (4)
University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum (5)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (6)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.Remarks on North American Noctuidae with descriptions of new species
A. R. Grote . 1874. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 5: 89-98.
3.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 .
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.University of Alberta Entomology Collection
6.Butterflies of North America
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 5 October, 2013 - 4:03pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, marcie oconnor
Last updated 16 February, 2022 - 6:46am

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