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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Xylenini » Xylenina » Pinions (Lithophane) » Lithophane contenta - Hodges#9901 (Lithophane contenta)

Species Lithophane contenta - Hodges#9901

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

NEED A PAGE for Oregon for Feb L contenta #9901 ( confirmation by Lars Crabo) - Lithophane contenta

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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 Xylenini

Subtribe Xylenina

Genus Lithophane (Pinions)

Species contenta (Lithophane contenta - Hodges#9901)

Hodges Number

9901

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lithophane contenta Grote (1), 1880 (2)

Synonym: Xylina pomona Smith, 1899 (3)

Phylogenetic sequence #932572 (4)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 52 Lithophane species in America north of Mexico.(4)

Size

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length 17-18 mm. (5)

Grote (1880) reported one wingspan of 38 mm. (2)

Identification

Grote (1880) original description available online in the print references. (2)

Pacific Northwest Moths has a detailed description.

Crumb (1956) described the larvae. (6)

Determined by Lars Crabo.

Range

Powell & Opler (2009) reported the range to include the Pacific Coast from British Columbia to California. (5)

Food

Crumb (1956) listed oak. (6)

See Also

Lithophane georgii

Lithophane longior

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1880. New species of N. Am. moths. The Canadian Entomologist 12, p. 216. (2)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 54, fig. 6; p. 298. (5)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (7)

Moth Photographers Group (8)

Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility

Macromoths of Northwest Forests and Woodlands

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (9)

Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	New species of N. Am. moths Augustus Radcliffe Grote . 1880. The Canadian Entomologist, 12(10): 213-220.

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

4.	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 .

5.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

6.	The Larvae of the Phalaenidae [Noctuidae] Samuel Ebb Crumb. 1956. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1135: 1-356.

7.	Pacific Northwest Moths

8.	North American Moth Photographers Group

9.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 27 February, 2014 - 1:22pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, JoAnneRusso
Last updated 15 February, 2020 - 2:40pm

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