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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Melipotini » Drasteria

Genus Drasteria

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

Drasteria grandirena? - Drasteria grandirena

Drasteria howlandii or tejonica? - Drasteria howlandii

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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 Melipotini

Genus Drasteria

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Drasteria Hübner, 1818

Aleucanitis Warren, 1913

Bolina Duponchel, 1845

Leucanitis Guenée, 1852

Syneda Guenée, 1852

Synedoida Edwards, 1878

Synedoida synonymized with Drasteria (Hübner) Richards, 1933

McDunnough check list (1938) and Franclemont and Todd list (in Hodges et al. 1983) mistakenly did not include the above synonomy

Synedoida re-synonymized with Drasteria Poole, 1989 Bruce Walsh, comment #53

Numbers

28 species in North America (1)

2 species in eastern Canada (CBIF)

10 species in western Canada (CBIF)

Size

wingspan 30-40 mm

Range

most of United States and southern Canada; species diversity much greater in the west

See Also

other members of the subfamily Catocalinae, especially Catocala species, which have brightly colored hindwings similar to Drasteria

Print References

Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. (1)

Internet References

BOLDSYSTEMS website page for the genus Drasteria - Specimens identified by DNA analysis

pinned adult images of 22 species occurring in western North America, plus photos of similar species (Moth Photographers Group)

pinned adult images of both species occurring in eastern Canada (CBIF)

pinned adult images of all 10 species occurring in western Canada (CBIF)

synonyms including Synedoida and Syneda and three other genera (Brian Pitkin, Butterflies and Moths of the World)

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 .

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 January, 2005 - 8:10pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Edward Ruden, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 25 June, 2023 - 9:21pm

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