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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Agrotina » Anicla » Anicla lubricans - Hodges#10901 (Anicla lubricans)

Species Anicla lubricans - Hodges#10901

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

10901 Anicla lubricans (Anicla lubricans) - Anicla lubricans

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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Noctuini

Subtribe Agrotina

Genus Anicla

Species lubricans (Anicla lubricans - Hodges#10901)

Hodges Number

10901

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anicla lubricans (Guenée, 1852)

Euagrotis lubricans (Guenée, 1852)

Noctua lubricans Guenée, 1852

Phylogenetic sequence # 933214 (1)

Size

Wingspan is about 35 mm.

Identification

Easily confused with the very similar Anicla illapsa. The safest way to separate the 2 species is by looking at the hindwings. On Anicla illapsa, the hindwings are white but on Anicla lubricans the hindwings are grayish.

Print References

Brou Jr., Vernon A. 2003. Euagrotis lubricans (Guenee) in Louisiana. Southern Lepidopterist News. 25: 89-90. PDF

Covell, Jr., C.V. 1984. A Field Guide to Moths Eastern North America. The Peterson Field Guide Series No. 30. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. (2)

Lafontaine, J.D., 2004. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 49; plate A, figs. 24-26. (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (1)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2005.

3.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part), Noctuinae (Part-Agrotini), Fascicle 27.1 J. Donald Lafontaine. 2004. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 26 November, 2013 - 8:59pm
Additional contributions by Ken Childs
Last updated 23 September, 2014 - 8:43am

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