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Species Nychioptera opada - Hodges#8487

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Arizona Moth - Nychioptera opada
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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 Boletobiinae
Tribe Phytometrini
Genus Nychioptera
Species opada (Nychioptera opada - Hodges#8487)

Hodges Number

8487

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Nychioptera opada Franclemont, 1966 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930723

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 3 species of the genus Nychioptera in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Franclemont (1966) listed the wingspan. (1)
♂ 19-21 mm.
♀ 21-24 mm.

Range

Arizona. (3)
Holotype ♂ from Madero Canyon, 4880', Santa Rita Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona.; 8 August 1960, by J.G. Franclemont.

Season

July, August.

Print References

Franclemont, J.G., 1966. A new genus, Nychioptera, with descriptions of two new species and notes on the genus Hemeroplanis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington, 68: pp. 301; fig. 16. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (3)

Works Cited

1.A new genus, Nychioptera, with descriptions of two new species and notes on the genus Hemeroplanis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
John G. Franclemont. 1966. Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington 68: 295-306.
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.Moths of Southeast Arizona
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 November, 2013 - 8:43pm

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