Schinia zuni (Zuni Flower Moth) | Natural Heritage New Mexico

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Family: Noctuidae

Genus: Schinia

Species: zuni

Zuni Flower Moth - Schinia zuni

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Species Extent (New Mexico)

Global Rank: GNR

State Rank: S2

Rank Metadata
State Rank: S2	Rank Changed: 03/28/2025
Rank Reviewed: N/A
Reason: <em>Schinia zuni</em> is a rarely collected flower moth native to the northern portion of the Arizona-New Mexico borderlands, east towards north-central New Mexico, in the United States. It has been recorded very few times, though survey effort in the region has been minimal. This species has only been recorded in about 8 localities. If each is impacted individually by localized threats, such as drought, livestock grazing and invasive species, it may take eight threatenening effects to drive the species to extinction. However, the threat of drought, for example, may impact larger regions, and therefore neighboring occurrences may be impacted simultaneously by one particularly severe or prolonged. This may result in many fewer threats being necessary to drive the species extinction. Continuing decline is also inferred for this species, due to the aforementioned threats. Therefore, until additional information is available, this poorly understood species qualifies as S2 in New Mexico.

Ecological Factors
Specificity: Unknown	Range Extent: 20,000-200,000 square km (about 8000-80,000 square miles)
Occurences: 6 - 20	Population Size: Unknown
Area of Occupancy: An Area of Occupancy of 13km2 was calculated using all known occurrence records.	Threat Summary: N/A

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SWAP Status: SGCN

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Number of Subpopulations: 7

Number of Mapped Locations: 8

Number of Observations: 7

Observation date range: 01-01-2009 to 01-01-2021

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