Bellura obliqua

Bellura obliqua, the cattail borer, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae.[1][2][3] It was first described by Francis Walker in 1865 and it is found in North America.[1]

Bellura obliqua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Bellura
Species:	B. obliqua
Binomial name
Bellura obliqua (Walker, 1865)
Synonyms[1]
Bellura obliqua gargantua (Barnes & Benjamin, 1924) Bellura obliqua pallida (Dyar, 1913)

The MONA or Hodges number for Bellura obliqua is 9525.[4]

References

1. "Bellura obliqua Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
2. "Bellura obliqua". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
3. "Bellura obliqua Species Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
4. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Bellura obliqua". Retrieved 2018-04-21.

Further reading

• Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 127–47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
• Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2015). "Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico, III". ZooKeys (527): 227–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.527.6151. PMC 4668890. PMID 26692790.
• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.