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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 linda - Hodges#10086 (Sympistis linda)

Species Sympistis linda - Hodges#10086

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · See Also · 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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Oncocnemidinae

Genus Sympistis

Species linda (Sympistis linda - Hodges#10086)

Hodges Number

10086

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sympistis linda (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)

Oncocnemis linda Barnes & McDunnough, 1913 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 931937 (1)

Size

Barnes & McDunnough, (1913) listed a wingspan of 27 mm.

Moth Photographers Group displays 26-29 mm. (2)

Range

California. (3)

Syntypes collected Loma Linda, San Bernardino County, California, in USNM, Washington. (4)

BOLD has several images from Arizona

Season

The main flight period appears to be July to October. (2)

See Also

Sympistis benjamini

Sympistis regina

Print References

Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough, 1913. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America The Review Press. 2: 110.

Internet References

Large pinned photo @ Moth Photographers Group (2)

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

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.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

4.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 January, 2014 - 11:17pm
Additional contributions by Steve Morris
Last updated 13 November, 2022 - 8:09pm

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