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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Hypeninae » Hypena » Hypena heuloa - Hodges#8449 (Hypena heuloa)

Species Hypena heuloa - Hodges#8449

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
unknown moth - Hypena heuloa
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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 Hypeninae
Genus Hypena
Species heuloa (Hypena heuloa - Hodges#8449)
Hodges Number
8449
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hypena heuloa (Smith, 1905)
Bomolocha heuloa Smith, 1905
Phylogenetic sequence # 930572 (1)
Size
Smith (1905) listed the wingspan 29-31 mm.
Range
Arizona.
Holotype from Cochise County, Arizona in July.
Season
The main flight period appears to be July through August.
Print References
Smith, J.B., 1905. New Noctuidae for 1905 - No. 1. The Canadian Entomologist 37(2): 69.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (listed only as Hypena henloa). (4)
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.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
4.Moths of Southeast Arizona
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 22 September, 2014 - 4:35pm

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