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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152062753" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:C2F3E7CDBE52D182345B2387C18CED8C" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C2F3E7CDBE52D182345B2387C18CED8C" lastPageId="20" lastPageNumber="77" pageId="19" pageNumber="76">
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="76">Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Noctuidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authority="Hampson" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="76" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Aseptis perfumosa (Hampson)</taxonomicName>
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Figs 45, 46, 72, 88
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Trachea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trachea perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="20" pageNumber="77" start="start">Trachea</pageBreakToken>
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perfumosa
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Hampson, 1918: 131.
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="77" type="taxonomy">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">Taxonomy.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">
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The type material of
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Hampson, the holotype female and two paratype females, was originally part of the type series of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Trachea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trachea fumeola" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumeola">Trachea fumeola</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation author="Hampson, GF" journalOrPublisher="Taylor and Francis, London" pageId="31" pageNumber="88" title="Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum" year="1908">Hampson 1908</bibRefCitation>
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. In fact, the female later selected as the
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Trachea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trachea perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Trachea perfumosa</taxonomicName>
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holotype was depicted on plate 112 as
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Trachea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trachea fumeola" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumeola">Trachea fumeola</taxonomicName>
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. The male and females were described in separate paragraphs and the male was selected as the type of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Trachea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trachea fumeola" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumeola">Trachea fumeola</taxonomicName>
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. Hampson later realized that these females and the male type were separate species, naming the females
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Trachea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trachea perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Trachea perfumosa</taxonomicName>
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Hampson, 1918. The 1918 work lacks a description-initially leading us to suspect that
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is a nomen nudum-but instead references the female
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Trachea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trachea fumeola" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumeola">Trachea fumeola</taxonomicName>
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description and illustration in the earlier work. This indication thereby validates the name.
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">Holotype: female [BMNH, photograph examined]. Type locality: USA, California.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="77" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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This is a small dark
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with a wingspan of 32.7
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<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
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1.2 mm (n=25; range 30.5-34.5 mm). The body appears short and stout and the wings short and stubby. The forewing is slightly mottled dark gray brown, almost black in some specimens, often with a few grayish, brownish, olive, or reddish scales in the medial area around the velvety black spots of which the acute claviform spot is usually the most prominent. Less conspicuous forewing markings include a short black basal dash, incomplete faint wavy basal, antemedial and postmedial lines filled with brown, and irregular complete brown subterminal line. The hindwing of both sexes is dark grayish brown with inconspicuous veins.
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">
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Males of
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are separated easily from all other species of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Aseptis</taxonomicName>
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by the short spike-like digitus that arises near the ventral margin and is perpendicular to it. The 90° basal bend of the vesica and basally-constricted medial diverticulum are also diagnostic. Females are identified by the thin flange on the tip of each papilla analis and by the bilobed appendix bursae.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">
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Superficially,
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is most similar to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis fumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumosa">Aseptis fumosa</taxonomicName>
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.
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tends to be smaller and narrower winged than
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis fumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumosa">Aseptis fumosa</taxonomicName>
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. Males are separated easily by hindwing color, dark in
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and pale in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis fumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumosa">Aseptis fumosa</taxonomicName>
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. Females can often be separated based the maculation as the claviform spot is usually the most prominent feature on
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Aseptis perfumosa</taxonomicName>
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, whereas the postmedial line is clearer in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis fumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumosa">Aseptis fumosa</taxonomicName>
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. The correct identity can be confirmed by examining the tips of the ovipositors under magnification.
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<caption pageId="20" pageNumber="77">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">
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Figures 66-75.
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Paraseptis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paraseptis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paraseptis</taxonomicName>
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, and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Viridiseptis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Viridiseptis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Viridiseptis</taxonomicName>
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male genitalia. 66
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis binotata" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="binotata">Aseptis binotata</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis catalina" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="catalina">Aseptis catalina</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis serrula" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="serrula">Aseptis serrula</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis torreyana" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="torreyana">Aseptis torreyana</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis susquesa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="susquesa">Aseptis susquesa</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis fumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumosa">Aseptis fumosa</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Aseptis perfumosa</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis characta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="characta">Aseptis characta</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Paraseptis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paraseptis adnixa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="adnixa">Paraseptis adnixa</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Viridiseptis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Viridiseptis marina" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marina">Viridiseptis marina</taxonomicName>
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Figures 76-91.
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,
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, and
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female genitalia. 76
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis ethnica" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ethnica">Aseptis ethnica</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis murina" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="murina">Aseptis murina</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis ferruginea" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ferruginea">Aseptis ferruginea</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis fanatica" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fanatica">Aseptis fanatica</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis lichena" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lichena">Aseptis lichena</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis fumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumosa">Aseptis fumosa</taxonomicName>
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88
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Aseptis perfumosa</taxonomicName>
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89
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis characta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="characta">Aseptis characta</taxonomicName>
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90
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Paraseptis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paraseptis adnixa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="adnixa">Paraseptis adnixa</taxonomicName>
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91
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Viridiseptis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Viridiseptis marina" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marina">Viridiseptis marina</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="77" type="distribution and biology">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">Distribution and biology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Aseptis perfumosa</taxonomicName>
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is endemic to southern California where it occurs in many habitats such as coastal chaparral and canyons, urban areas, brush land, and open oak forest from sea level to 2000 m. It is often very common and can be the most abundant noctuid species. The peak of its flight is early April to early June in coastal areas and a little later at higher elevations. The larva and pupa are described and figured by
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<bibRefCitation author="Comstock, JA" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences" pageId="31" pageNumber="88" pagination="104 - 105" title="Notes on the life history of Aseptisperfumosa Hamps." volume="39" year="1940 b">Comstock (1940b)</bibRefCitation>
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. The green larvae were found and reared on Manzanita (
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Arctostaphylos" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Arctostaphylos" order="Ericales" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Arctostaphylos</taxonomicName>
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spp.).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="77" type="discussion">
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">Discussion.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="77">
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<bibRefCitation author="Hampson, GF" journalOrPublisher="Novitates Zoologicae" pageId="31" pageNumber="88" pagination="93 - 217" title="Descriptions of new genera and species of Amatidae, Lithosidae, and Noctuidae." volume="25" year="1918">Hampson (1918)</bibRefCitation>
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gives the expanse of the type of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Trachea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trachea perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Trachea perfumosa</taxonomicName>
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as 36 mm. This is larger than any
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Aseptis perfumosa</taxonomicName>
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specimens examined by us. This led us initially to question whether he might have described a female of the larger species
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis fumeola" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fumeola">Aseptis fumeola</taxonomicName>
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rather than
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Aseptis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aseptis perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Aseptis perfumosa</taxonomicName>
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, given that the latter species was named from a specimen in the type series of the former species. While enquiring about the types at the BMNH, Alberto Zilli (pers. comm. 2015) explained that
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Hampson’s">Hampson's</normalizedToken>
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wingspans are almost always greater than those of the actual moth because of his method of measurement. He measured from the pin to the apex of the forewing and doubled the result. While the actual wingspan of the female type of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Trachea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trachea perfumosa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="perfumosa">Trachea perfumosa</taxonomicName>
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is 33.5 mm, a normal size for the species, the result using
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Hampson’s">Hampson's</normalizedToken>
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method yields the published result of 36 mm.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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