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Species Apantesis blakei - Grammia blakei - Hodges#8185

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Nevada Tiger Moth, 8179 - Apantesis blakei Tiger Moth? - central Montana - Apantesis blakei Grammia Sp? - Apantesis blakei - female Apantesis blakei - male Apantesis blakei Unknown Apantesis - Apantesis blakei Apantesis nevadensis - Apantesis blakei Blake's Tiger Moth - Apantesis blakei
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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 Arctiina
Genus Apantesis
Species blakei (Grammia blakei - Hodges#8185)
Hodges Number
8185
Other Common Names
Blake's Tiger-moth
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Grammia blakei (Grote(1), 1864)
Apantesis blakei Grote, 1864 (2)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930269 (3)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 36 species of the genus Grammia in America north of Mexico. (3)
Size
Grote (1864) listed a wingspan of 1.20" (30.48 mm.) (2)
Forewing length 10–14 mm. (4)
Range
British Columbia to Manitoba, south to northern New Mexico and northern Texas.
Holotype ♀ collected in "Colorado Territory" by James Ridings. (2)
Food
Schmidt (2009) reported the larvae polyphagous and feeding on various grasses and forbes. (5)
See Also
Grammia nevadensis
Grammia williamsi
Print References
Grote, A.R., 1864. Descriptions of new North America Lepidoptera - No. 5. Proceedings of the Entomologists' Society of Philadelphia, 3 : 523, pl. 5, fig. 2. (2)
Internet References
Pacific Northwest Moths (4)
Moth Photographers Group (6)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (7)
University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.Description of American Lepidoptera, No. 5
A. R. Grote, C. T. Robinson. 1870. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 3 (8): 176-183.
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.Pacific Northwest Moths
5.Taxonomic revision of the genus Grammia Rambur (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Arctiinae). (2009)
B. Christian Schmidt. 2009. The Linnean Society of London 156(3): 507–597.
6.North American Moth Photographers Group
7.Butterflies of North America
8.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 29 October, 2013 - 11:37am
Last updated 29 October, 2013 - 4:09pm

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