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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Oncocnemidinae » Sympistis » Sympistis regina - Hodges#10073 (Sympistis regina)

Species Sympistis regina - Hodges#10073

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

Sympistis regina - Hodges #10073 - Sympistis regina

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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 Oncocnemidinae

Genus Sympistis

Species regina (Sympistis regina - Hodges#10073)

Hodges Number

10073

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sympistis regina (Smith, 1902)

Oncocnemis regina Smith, 1902 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 931863 (2)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 176 species of the genus Sympistis in America north of Mexico. (2)

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2013) reinstated one species. (3)

Size

Smith (1902) listed a wingspan of 28 mm. (1)

Identification

Smith (1902) original description in PDF. (1)

Season

The main flight period appears to be August to October.

See Also

Pacific Northwest Moths website mentions Sympistis hayesi and S. regina might be a regional forms of the same species.

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) DNA barcode data indicates two distinct species. (4)

Print References

Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 40: 59-64. (2)

Lafontaine, J.D. & BC. Schmidt 2013. Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 264: 230, 234. (3)

Smith, J.B. 1902. New Species of Noctuidae for 1902. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 10. 44. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	New species of Noctuidae for 1902 John B Smith. 1902. Journal of The New York Entomological Society, 10: 33-53.

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.	Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. J. Donald Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt . 2013. ZooKeys 264: 227-236.

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 December, 2013 - 3:48pm
Last updated 12 December, 2013 - 7:55am

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