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Species Acontia chea - Hodges#9160

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Acontia cretata? - Acontia chea Arizona Moth - Acontia chea Acontia chea? - Acontia chea Acontia cretata - Acontia chea Acontia cretata - Acontia chea Chalky Bird Dropping Moth? - Acontia chea Chalky Bird Dropping Moth? - Acontia chea Arizona Moth - Acontia chea
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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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)
Tribe Acontiini
Genus Acontia
Species chea (Acontia chea - Hodges#9160)

Hodges Number

9160

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acontia chea Druce, 1889
Synonym Acontia eudryada Smith, 1905
Phylogenetic sequence # 931376 (1)

Range

Southern Arizona; northern Mexico.

See Also

Acontia cretata

Print References

Druce, 1898, Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Lepidoptera-Heterocera, 2: 493, pl. 95, figs. 3,4.
Smith, 1905, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 13: 210.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)
Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com) (3)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.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 .
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 November, 2013 - 9:30pm
Last updated 19 May, 2014 - 10:33am

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