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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 benjamini - Hodges#10087 (Sympistis benjamini)

Species Sympistis benjamini - Hodges#10087

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Season · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Cream Moth with dark forewing band - Sympistis benjamini

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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 benjamini (Sympistis benjamini - Hodges#10087)

Hodges Number

10087

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sympistis benjamini (Lindsey, 1923)

Oncocnemis benjamini Lindsey, 1923

O. lindseyi Draught, 1924

Oncociicmis punctilinca Barnes & Lindsey 1922 (preoccupied)

Phylogenetic sequence # 931936 (1)

Explanation of Names

Lindsey (1923) stated "My attention has recently been called to two homonyms which I published while with Dr. Barnes. Mr. F.H. Benjamin points out that Oncociicmis punctilinca B.& L. (Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc. xvii, 71, 1922) is preoccupied by O. punctilinca Hampson. I propose the new name ONCOCNEMIS BENJAMINI for this species, in recognition of Mr. Benjamin's excellent work on the Noctuidae."

Numbers

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

Range

Southern California(2), Nevada and Arizona.(3)

Holotype ♂ from Mohave County, Arizona in USNM (United States National Museum, Washington). (4)

Habitat

Desert

Season

The main flight period appears to be September to November. (3)

See Also

Sympistis linda (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)

Print References

Lindsey, A.W. 1923. New names in the order of Lepidoptera. Entomological News Philadelphia 34: 123.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

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.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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 - 11:22pm
Last updated 14 January, 2014 - 9:04am

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