''Zale confusa'', the confused zale moth, is an owlet moth in the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

. The species was first described by

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in 1940. It is found in North America. The MONA or

Hodges number A MONA number (short for Moths of North America), or Hodges number after Ronald W. Hodges, is part of a numbering system for North American moths found north of Mexico in the Continental United States and Canada, as well as the island of Greenla ...

for ''Zale confusa'' is

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.Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. (2016).
Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
'Homziak N, Hopkins H, Miller KB (2015). "Revision of the genus ''Heteranassa'' Smith, 1899 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Omopterini)". ''ZooKeys 527'': 31-49.

References

* Crabo L, Davis M, Hammond P, Mustelin T, Shepard J (2013). "Five new species and three new subspecies of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Northwestern North America, with notes on ''Chytolita'' Grote (Erebidae) and Hydraecia Guenée (Noctuidae)". ''ZooKeys'' 264: 85-123. * Lafontaine, J. Donald & Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ''ZooKeys'', vol. 40, 1-239. *

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