Species Schinia crenilinea - Hodges#11185

11185

Schinia crenilinea Smith 1891

Eupanychis crenilinea Hampson 1903

Phylogenetic sequence # 932155 (1)

Original description is online at link under print peferences. (Smith)

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Adult: forewing tan with brown basal and subterminal areas, and diffuse brown medial line; AM line pale, scalloped; reniform spot represented by diffuse blackish patch; PM line whitish, edged distally with black, toothed, with rounded sinuses between the teeth; subterminal line irregular, with pale shading beyond it; fringe pale, interspersed at regular intervals with patches of darker scales; hindwing pale yellowish toward base, shading to orangish-brown in distal half

Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Lectotype: USA: Texas, Houston.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Adults fly from March to July, with one September record (BugGuide, MPG, and Lepidopterist's Society database).

page creation based on Chuck Harp's identification of this image, as reported by Bob Patterson

two superficially similar species (Schinia arefacta, S. fulleri) are restricted to Florida and Georgia, some distance from the known range of S. crenilinea

(see images of these and related species by various photographers at Moth Photographers Group)

Smith, J.B., 1891. Notes on some Noctuidae, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 28: 129. (2)

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (4)