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Specimen records for North American Lepidoptera (Insecta) in the Oregon State 
Arthropod Collection. Hepialidae Stephens, 1829

Jon H. Shepard
Paul C. Hammond
Christopher J. Marshall

Oregon State Arthropod Collection, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, 
Corvallis OR 97331

Cite this work, including the attached dataset, as: 

Shepard, J. H., P. C. Hammond, C. J. Marshall. 2019.  Specimen records for North American Lepidoptera (Insecta) in 
the Oregon State Arthropod Collection. Hepialidae Stephens, 1829. Catalog: Oregon State Arthropod 
Collection 3(2) (beta version). http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/osu/cat_osac.3.2.4590

Introduction

These records were generated using funds from the LepNet project (Seltmann et. al., 2017) - a national 
collaborative effort to create digital records for North American Lepidoptera. The dataset published 
herein contains the label data for all North American specimens of Hepialidae residing at the Oregon 
State Arthropod Collection as of March 2019. A beta version of these data records will be made 
available on the OSAC server (http://osac.oregonstate.edu/IPT) at the time of this publication.  The 
beta version, entitled, OSAC_Heplialidae_2019_ver_beta will be replaced in the near future with an 
official release (OSAC_Hepialidae_2019_ver_1.0), which will then also be archived as a supplemental 
file to this publication.

Methods

Basic digitization protocols and metadata standards can be found in (Shepard et al. 2018).  
Identifications were made by Jon Shepard with reference to an unpublished key to the PNW 
Hepialidae Wagner (1983).  Identification and nomenclature were checked against the Digital Guide 
to Moth Identification (Moths Protographers Group,  2019).

Results

As of March 2019, the collection possessed 70 specimens of North American Hepialidae, belonging 
to the genera: Sthenopis Pagenstecher, 1909, Phymatopus Wallengren, 1869 and Gazoryctra Hübner, 1820 
(Table 1)  

Additional material from outside of North America is also present in the holdings, but was not 
digitized and catalogued at this time.  

Label data for these specimens can be accessed via online data portals that digest OSAC IPT data 
directly (e.g, www.gbif.org) or by accessing the archived datasets stored in the supplemental files of 
this paper.



Catalog: Oregon State Arthropod Collection   2019 Vol 3 (2)

Taxon # specimens
Sthenopis purpurascens Packard, 1863 3
Sthenopis argenteomaculatus Harris, 1841 1
Phymatopus hectoides (Boisduval, 1868) 12
Phymatopus californicus (Boisduval, 1868) 7
Phymatopus behrensi (Stretch, 1872) 3
Phymatopus (undetermined) 2
Gazoryctra novigannus (Barnes and Benjamin, [1926]) 16
Gazoryctra mathewi (W.H. Edwards, 1874) 18
Gazoryctra (undetermined) 8

total 70

Discussion

Minor corrections and other small modifications made in the future to this dataset will be 
accomplished by issuing a new version and providing a file of modified records to the supplemental 
files.  Major additions, such as new records, new data fields, new contributors or other significant 
modifications will be accomplished through the generation and release of new datasets.

Acknowledgments

The records published herein were generated with funds from NSF: DBI#1601888: Digitization TCN: 
Collaborative Research: Lepidoptera of North America Network: Documenting Diversity in the 
Largest Clade of Herbivores.

References

Moth Photographers Group (2019) Digital Guide to Moth Identification.  
https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu [accessed April 1, 2019].

Seltmann, K.C. et al. 2017.  LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network. Zootaxa 4247 (1): 
073-077. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.10.

Shepard J.H., C.J. Marshall, P.C. Hammond. 2018. North American Lepidoptera in the Oregon State 
Arthropod Collection: Hesperiidae, Pieridae, Papilionidae. Catalog: Oregon State 
Arthropod Collection 2(2): 1-2 and supplement file.  
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/osu/cat_osac.2.2.4480

Wagner, D.  1983. Hepialidae of the Pacific Northwest pp. [1]-18. unpublished manuscript.

Table 1. Species inventory of OSAC Hepialidae


