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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Phytometrini » Euaontia » Euaontia clarki - Hodges#8568 (Euaontia clarki)

Species Euaontia clarki - Hodges#8568

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

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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 Euaontia

Species clarki (Euaontia clarki - Hodges#8568)

Hodges Number

8568

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Euaontia clarki Barnes & McDunnough (1), 1916

Phylogenetic sequence # 930742 (2)

Size

Barnes & McDunnough (1916) listed a wingspan of 20 mm.

Identification

Sexually dimorphic.

Range

California, Nevada, Arizona

Holotype from Palm Springs, Riverside County, California.

Season

The main flight period appears to be March to August. (3)

Print References

Barnes, W. & McDunnough, J.H. 1916. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America . p. 16; plate 3, fig. 13.

Powell, J.A. 1978. Survey of Lepidoptera inhabiting three dune systems in the California Desert. Bureau of Land Management, California Desert District Office. Table 1. (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	James Halliday McDunnough (1877 -1962) A biographical obituary and bibliography Douglas C. Ferguson . 1962. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 16(4): 209-228.

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Survey of Lepidoptera inhabiting three dune systems in the California Desert. J. A. Powell. 1978. U. S. Bureau of Land Management .

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 January, 2014 - 12:17pm
Last updated 5 April, 2014 - 12:39am

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