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<pageBreakToken id="66F380333B7423DF3D26817323AC409E" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" start="start">Taxon</pageBreakToken>
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classification Animalia Lepidoptera Noctuidae
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<subSubSection id="4FFFF592FACEF0A8C722D08B19495B63" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" type="nomenclature">
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<taxonomicName id="42B62591B3D4909B0FBE1A825B14796A" ID-CoL="H9GW" authority="Grote, 1880" authorityName="Grote" authorityYear="1880" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis characta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="characta">Aseptis characta (Grote, 1880)</taxonomicName>
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Figs 47-52, 73, 89
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<subSubSection id="6C7AAC6700B55F9008FD68558A81C65D" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" type="reference_group">
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<paragraph id="E8854D176BCC72CF60E3D3184B001551" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">
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<taxonomicName id="9D134DD8663786BCA96A9D762D151B02" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena characta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="characta">Hadena characta</taxonomicName>
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Grote, 1880: 243.
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<paragraph id="DDB65E29D12E2C3FBC9D335C70C2CB1D" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">
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<taxonomicName id="E92835F82519B499781E3B6003175DC6" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena luteocinerea" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="luteocinerea">Hadena luteocinerea</taxonomicName>
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Smith, 1900: 468.
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<paragraph id="2F8607DBAD8ECCC9FE2B505F06E877AC" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">
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<taxonomicName id="7F769885B0047BA48ED7FB3C46485449" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena erica" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="erica">Hadena erica</taxonomicName>
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Smith, 1905: 258.
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<paragraph id="1AC3332B3A9A40832099953150F01799" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">
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<taxonomicName id="4ACBE42EF918D65AC54E958721E052E5" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena pluraloides" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pluraloides">Hadena pluraloides</taxonomicName>
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McDunnough, 1922: 237.
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<subSubSection id="BBC0C010BABB58D4302451C43F387137" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" type="type material">
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<paragraph id="05D12F6AA07E9254AEBDA26C6D4A4F7B" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8FA7FA24C20A11E8C0B8D9E404E24D32" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">
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<taxonomicName id="68D6B7FBC85631876E670E9D320F501E" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena characta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="characta">Hadena characta</taxonomicName>
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: Holotype female [BMNH, photograph examined]. Type locality: Nevada.
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<taxonomicName id="E37EEF2BE146BE5725871CA90939D2E4" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena luteocinerea" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="luteocinerea">Hadena luteocinerea</taxonomicName>
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: Holotype male [USNM, examined]. Type Locality: Montana.
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<taxonomicName id="3C41E8EDE0A1BF94F86446A86DB76D33" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena erica" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="erica">Hadena erica</taxonomicName>
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: Lectotype male designated by
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<bibRefCitation id="47B104C71EF4BB02A3C442E406D8D13B" author="Todd, EL" journalOrPublisher="United States Department of Agriculture" pageId="33" pageNumber="90" title="The Noctuid type material of John B. Smith (Lepidoptera)." year="1982">Todd (1982)</bibRefCitation>
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[AMNH, examined]. Type Locality: Stockton, Utah.
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<taxonomicName id="8F707051672BA4E0A3CA7A0E1DCF42EF" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena pluraloides" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pluraloides">Hadena pluraloides</taxonomicName>
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: Holotype female [CNC, examined]. Type Locality: Lethbridge, Alberta.
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<paragraph id="54578007A21F11FE3B07FEA87E600E5C" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="488891C3DB2C62D3E71DF9AD3524140D" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">
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This is a narrow-winged smaller
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<taxonomicName id="51E3974C18FD48F1ED101202EF5E6ACB" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Aseptis</taxonomicName>
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, wingspan 32.0
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1.2 mm (n=25; range 29.5-35 mm), with complete forewing pattern of typical lines and spots. The forewing is ash gray to pale tan, often darker gray in the medial area and with variable olive-gray, tan, or orange-tan patches. The basal, antemedial and postmedial lines are double, dark gray filled with pale gray. The postmedial area is lighter with a shade preceding the pale subterminal line and a number of black wedges between the veins, The three spots are outlined in black and are filled with the ground color and, except the claviform spot, peripheral lighter gray scales. The hindwing is gray, pale gray, or white with dark discal spot, veins, and terminal line, darker in females.
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<paragraph id="1F931E334EA268DB5D8FCBDB929439B4" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">
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<taxonomicName id="9A38DB9CE00761DEF80D1C92D7C76EC9" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis characta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="characta">Aseptis characta</taxonomicName>
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is geographically variable, appearing slightly different in each region. In extreme southern California it is relatively smooth gray with a white hindwing (Fig. 47), becoming more powdery with a gray hindwing in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties and more mottled in the Sierra Nevada. In the Pacific Northwest it is usually darker gray with variable subtle olive or brown shades on the forewing and a fuscous hindwing (Figs 49 and 51), although populations from the Blue Mountains of Washington and Oregon resemble those from the Sierra Nevada. On the Great Plains
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<taxonomicName id="CD17FC46475E9A014DD7AC37E94A7C37" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis characta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="characta">Aseptis characta</taxonomicName>
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is lighter, often pale tan with a warm orange cast (Fig. 50).
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<paragraph id="FDC9C9ECAF9A9773A9CB2C610552B299" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">
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The male valve is strap-like with a slight S-shape, with a very weak sacculus, slightly expanded cucullus with a rounded apex, rod-like straight ampulla oriented parallel to the costa, and no digitus. The vesica is similar to that of
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<taxonomicName id="C96E023821CF23D82294F0C3A250816B" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis binotata" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="binotata">Aseptis binotata</taxonomicName>
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but has one or two additional spine-like cornuti on its mid-portion. The female has a papilla analis covered densely with short needle-like setae and sparse basal hairs, a rounded corpus bursae lacking signa, and a short appendix bursae that barely changes the outline of the bursa.
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<paragraph id="DC8687AA4B772B5EC53B9F0412014296" lastPageId="22" lastPageNumber="79" pageId="21" pageNumber="78">
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<taxonomicName id="9AFA19CC0B7751E237F86434B3ACD059" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis characta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="characta">Aseptis characta</taxonomicName>
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can be identified by its small size, mottled gray forewing, and complete pattern of lines and spots. The male is the only
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<taxonomicName id="E0FF20C403480340EF6E8CBEEC7A363B" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Aseptis</taxonomicName>
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with two or three slender cornuti on the vesica and the female is the only one with an immaculate corpus bursae and weak appendix bursae. This species is similar to several species of
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McDunnough in the
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, especially
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<taxonomicName id="A6F06CC475624544F2720116FED7CF1F" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Lacinipolia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lacinipolia pensilis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pensilis">Lacinipolia pensilis</taxonomicName>
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(Grote), and is often
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<pageBreakToken id="148BB2F0F9CFDD5DF2C9D89FD12992FC" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" start="start">intermixed</pageBreakToken>
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with them in collections. They can be distinguished by the hindwing notch of
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and minute hairs on the eyes of
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<taxonomicName id="A0145D9FDCD236D282C829BFA9126B11" genus="Lacinopolia" lsidName="Lacinopolia" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" rank="genus">Lacinopolia</taxonomicName>
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.
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<subSubSection id="3E745B85B0F75876F22339B9E3B4EDF1" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" type="distribution and biology">
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<paragraph id="EF58BE6E3530688741E7628F41EADDB5" pageId="22" pageNumber="79">Distribution and biology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="DA25AC2F083E90F4E3E4CD483B537D9D" pageId="22" pageNumber="79">
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<taxonomicName id="AE8E9436B1A4E1BD46119BA001877B50" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis characta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="characta">Aseptis characta</taxonomicName>
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is widespread in western North America in the western Great Plains, Great Basin, and Pacific regions from British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to Colorado, Utah, northern Arizona and southern California. It does not occur on the immediate Pacific Coast north of central California. It flies in dry habitats like sagebrush steppe, juniper woodlands, and open forest from sea level to 2500 m and is often common. In southern California it is most often found on the dry side of the mountain ranges, in the mountain-desert transition zone, and in the deserts. Emergence is earliest in xeric habitats, usually April in California and mid-May in the Pacific Northwest. The flight lasts until July to August depending on locality. The striped gray-green and white larva has been found feeding on
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<taxonomicName id="4108841C594E6BE1A5C0442AFC3CB99F" class="Branchiopoda" family="Artemiidae" genus="Artemisia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Artemisia" order="Anostraca" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Artemisia</taxonomicName>
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spp. (
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<taxonomicName id="0C27F117A5BBF44E845564B8899E7715" family="Asteraceae" lsidName="Xylenina" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" rank="family">Asteraceae</taxonomicName>
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) (
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<bibRefCitation id="E00103F9CB642E856C5BCD87F37E9D09" author="Comstock, JA" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences" pageId="31" pageNumber="88" pagination="60 - 66" title="Brief notes on the life histories of six California moths." volume="54" year="1955">Comstock 1955</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<bibRefCitation id="A3CCA4C70B35B8CB84C901D93F5EC188" author="Crumb, SE" journalOrPublisher="United States Department of Agriculture, Washington DC" pageId="31" pageNumber="88" title="The larvae of the Phalaenidae." year="1956">Crumb 1956</bibRefCitation>
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).
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<paragraph id="E11254E262D79E93DD6EA9F8B4F5720B" pageId="22" pageNumber="79">Discussion.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="35D7F551369D191900E4C16729ADE37F" pageId="22" pageNumber="79">
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Similarities between the male genitalia of this species and
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are noted under the latter species. The female corpus bursae lacking signa and shallow appendix bursae of
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are unique.
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<paragraph id="C98711F833B5E169B6CE559E2FBEDF9E" pageId="22" pageNumber="79">
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Given the geographic variability of
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it is almost surprising that not more names have been given to the various forms.
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<taxonomicName id="7DE534E89BE782752A33ADFF43257159" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena erica" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="erica">Hadena erica</taxonomicName>
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Smith was based on specimens from Utah which are bluish ash gray with patches of paler gray and an ochreous tinge on the basal and distal wing similar to Fig. 48. The light orange-tan Great Plains populations were described twice, as
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<taxonomicName id="65435E847BC6DCEA350DC9A5C494B81C" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena luteocinerea" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="luteocinerea">Hadena luteocinerea</taxonomicName>
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Smith from Montana and
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<taxonomicName id="13A56DFA2209C360E84AA3BCEEE12ECA" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hadena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hadena pluraloides" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pluraloides">Hadena pluraloides</taxonomicName>
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McDunnough from Alberta; both are similar to Fig. 50. The latter name denotes the resemblance to
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<taxonomicName id="33CCCA13D4767972827F7234882D8A2A" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Euxoa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Euxoa pluralis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pluralis">Euxoa pluralis</taxonomicName>
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(Grote).
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<taxonomicName id="1C6E26FF78AB1A2F8974E743F48D99F1" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis characta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="79" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="characta">Aseptis characta</taxonomicName>
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has a nearly continuous distribution within its range and the different forms are not well enough separated to warrant the use of subspecies.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="692BC9BF8267EEECB3A90B0E2FBF9BB9" pageId="22" pageNumber="79">In contrast to the variation in habitus of this species, the genitalia are uniform. Similarly, the variation of CO1 barcode sequences is small despite a large number of samples (n=67) from throughout its distribution. Multiple slightly different haplotypes cluster within a total range of less than 1%.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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