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Species Macrurocampa zayasi - Hodges#7997

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Heterocampa from the Florida Keys - Macrurocampa zayasi - male
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both

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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)
Subfamily Heterocampinae
Genus Macrurocampa
Species zayasi (Macrurocampa zayasi - Hodges#7997)

Hodges Number

7997

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Macrurocampa zayasi (Torre and Alayo)
Heterocampa zayasi Torre & Alayo, 1959
Phylogenetic sequence # 930089 (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 21 species of the genus Heterocampa in America north of Mexico. (1)

Identification

Range

Heppner (2003) reported the range to include Florida; Cuba. (2)
Listed on the Oklahoma checklist. (3)
Listed on the Dallas County, Texas checklist. (4)
Holotype from Cuba.

Season

Heppner (2003) reported January; March to May; September to December. (2)

Food

Heppner (2003) reported the host unknown. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (7)

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.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
3.Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)
4.Moths of Dallas County, Texas
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
7.Butterflies of North America
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 March, 2014 - 9:28pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban
Last updated 23 March, 2022 - 2:01pm

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