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Species Homorthodes rectiflava - Hodges#10542

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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Eriopygini
Genus Homorthodes
Species rectiflava (Homorthodes rectiflava - Hodges#10542)
Hodges Number
10542
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Homorthodes rectiflava (Smith, 1908)
Himellia rectiflava Smith, 1908 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 933099 (2)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 15 species of the genus in America north of Mexico. (2)
Size
Smith (1908) listed a wingspan of 27 mm.
Identification
Range
Arizona to Wyoming. (3), (4), (5)
Holotype ♂ from Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, "July 30".
Season
The main flight period appears to be July to October.
Print References
Smith, J.B., 1908. New species and genera of the Lepidopterous family Noctuidae for 1907. Part II. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 18(2): 105.