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Species Sympistis sanina - Hodges#10094

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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 sanina (Sympistis sanina - Hodges#10094)

Hodges Number

10094

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sympistis sanina (Smith, 1910)

Oncocnemis sanina Smith, 1910

Phylogenetic sequence # 931849 (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 176 species of the genus Sympistis in America north of Mexico. (1)

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2013) reinstated one species. (2)

Size

Smith (1910) listed the wingspan 28-30 mm.

Identification

Determined by Jan Metlevski.

Range

California to Wyoming, Nebraska, and New Mexico. (3)

Holotype from Gunnison, Colorado, 9 July (no year given).

Season

The main flight period appears to be June to October. (3), (4)

Print References

Smith, J.B. 1910. New Species of Noctuidae for 1910. No. 1. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 18: 91.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

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.	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.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	A generic realignment of the Oncocnemidini [sensu] (Hodges, 1983) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Oncocnemidinae), ..... J. T. Troubridge. 2008. Zootaxa 1903: 1-95.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 January, 2014 - 1:26am
Additional contributions by Steve Morris
Last updated 15 November, 2022 - 3:17pm

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