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Species Drasteria scrupulosa - Hodges#8621

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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 Erebinae
Tribe Melipotini
Genus Drasteria
Species scrupulosa (Drasteria scrupulosa - Hodges#8621)
Hodges Number
8621
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Drasteria scrupulosa (Hy. Edwards, 1878)
Synedoida scrupulosa H. Edwards, 1878
Poole (1989) included Synedoida as a junior synonym of Drasteria. (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930894
Size
Forewing length 18-21 mm. (2)
Range
California to Colorado and Oregon. (3), (4), (5)
Drasteria scrupulosa is most common in the southwestern United States. (2)
Holotype from Kern County, California.
Season
The main flight period appears to be July and August. (2)
Food
The larval host plant is unknown. (2)
See Also
Drasteria sabulosa
Print References
Edwards, 1878. Pacific Coast Lepidopterist. 29: 9.
Edwards, 1878. Proceedings of the California Academy of Science.: 9.
Smith, J.B., 1893. Catalogue of the lepidopterous superfamily Noctuidae found in Boreal America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 44: 321. (5)
Internet References
Pacific Northwest Moths (2)
Moth Photographers Group (4)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
Works Cited
1.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
2.Pacific Northwest Moths
3.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.Catalogue of the lepidopterous superfamily Noctuidae found in Boreal America
John B. Smith. 1893. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 44: 1-424.
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 25 October, 2013 - 8:37am

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