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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Pericopina » Dysschema » Northern Giant Flag Moth - Hodges#8040 (Dysschema howardi)

Species Dysschema howardi - Northern Giant Flag Moth - Hodges#8040

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Moth, ventral male - Dysschema howardi - male

Northern Giant Flag Moth - Hodges#8040 (Dysschema howardi) - Dysschema howardi

Northern Giant Flag moth - Dysschema howardi - female

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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 Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Pericopina

Genus Dysschema

Species howardi (Northern Giant Flag Moth - Hodges#8040)

Hodges Number

8040

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Daritis howardi (Hy. Edwards)

Orig. Comb: Daritis thetis, Klug, var. howardi Hy. Edwards, [1887]

Syn: Daritis thetis (1)

Explanation of Names

"Flag Moth" is a common name coined for the subfamily Pericopinae by Hogue (1993) (2)

No other species of Dysschema ranges as far north as Dysschema howardi.

Numbers

1 sp. n. of Mex. (a second sp. may have strayed once from Mexico).

There are some 90(!) species of Dysschema, mostly in South America.

Identification

male, female and larva

Range

AZ to w. TX / NW Mex. (MPG)

Food

Asteraceae

See Also

Mariamne's Giant Flag Moth - Mike Quinn, 2007

Print References

Cary, S.J. 2002. Winslow L. Howard: pioneer New Mexico naturalist. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 56(2): 49-52.

Cary, S.J., & R. Holland. 2002. Francis H. Snow's New Mexico butterfly collections. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 56(3): 151-161.

Edwards, H. [1887]. Apparently new forms of N. American Heterocera. Ent. Amer. 2: 165-171. Full PDF

Knudson, E. & C. Bordelon. 2003. Pub. 3: Checklist of Big Bend National Park. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. (treats 1300 species, 12 color plates).

Knudson, E. & C. Bordelon. 2003. Pub. 7: Checklist of Davis Mountains, TX. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. (treats 1100 species, 10 color plates).

McFarland, N. 1961. Notes on the early stages of Daritis (howardi?) (Pericopidae) from Cameron Peak, New Mexico. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 15(3): 172-174.

Internet References

Texas Entomology - Mike Quinn, 2007

Moth Photographers Group - MPG

BAMONA

Moths of SEAZ

Works Cited

1.	The Moth Book W.J. Holland. 1968. Dover.

2.	Latin American Insects and Entomology Charles L. Hogue. 1994. University of California Press.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 4 November, 2006 - 6:50pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 4 November, 2015 - 2:11pm

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