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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Catocalini » Underwings (Catocala) » Little Underwing - Hodges#8874 (Catocala minuta)

Species Catocala minuta - Little Underwing - Hodges#8874

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Little Underwing - Hodges #8874 (Catocala minuta) - Catocala minuta

Little Underwing - Hodges#8874 - Catocala minuta

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Erebinae

Tribe Catocalini

Genus Catocala (Underwings)

Species minuta (Little Underwing - Hodges#8874)

Hodges Number

8874

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Catocala minuta Edwards, 1864 (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Catocala parvula Edwards, 1864 (1), (6)

Catocala minuta var. parvula Edwards, 1864 (3)

Catocala minuta var. mellitula Hulst, 1884 (3)

Catocala minuta form "Hiseri" Cassino, 1918 (28)

Catocala minuta var. eureka Schwarz, 1919 (16)

Catocala minuta var. obliterata Schwarz, 1919 (preocc.) (17)

Phylogenetic sequence #930856

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin meaning "little, small."

Form "Hiseri" named for Mrs. O.F. Hiser, who collected the first specimens.

Numbers

110 Catocala species occur in America north of Mexico. (7), (8)

Size

Forewing length 17-19 mm. (7)

Range

Rare in the east, west to Nebraska, Colorado and Texas. (7)

Lectotype: New York. (6)

Food

Larval host is honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) (9), (7)

Life Cycle

Larva; adult

Print References

Barnes, Wm. & J.H. McDunnough, 1918. Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1): p.43; Pl.9, f.1-6; Pl.11, f.12-13 (larva). (4)

Covell, C.V. 1984. Peterson's Field Guide to Eastern Moths" p.315, pl. 33.(10)

Edwards, W.H., 1864. Descriptions of certain species of Catocala, found within the United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 512. (1)

Lafontaine J.D., & B.C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. (8)

Powell, J. A., & P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. Pl. 45.11m; p. 262. (7)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (11)

University of Massachusetts key

Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (12)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

William Henry Edwards (1822–1909)

Works Cited

1.	Descriptions of certain species of Catocala, found within the United States. William Henry Edwards. 1864. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 508-512.

2.	On the North American species of Catocala. Augustus Radcliffe Grote. 1872. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4: 1-20.

3.	The genus Catocala. George. D. Hulst. 1884. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 7(1): 14-56.

4.	Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. William Barnes, James Halliday McDunnough. 1918. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1).

5.	Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) IV. Nomenclatorial stabilization of the .... Lawrence Gall, David Hawks. 2010. Zookeys 39: 37-83.

6.	Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). III. Gall, Lawrence F. & David C. Hawks. 2002. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 56(4): 234-264.

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

8.	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 .

9.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

10.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

11.	North American Moth Photographers Group

12.	Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 13 January, 2005 - 8:30pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 March, 2018 - 10:29am

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