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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Phaegopterina » Lophocampa » Lophocampa ingens - Hodges#8208 (Lophocampa ingens)

Species Lophocampa ingens - Hodges#8208

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Lophocampa ingens, 8208 - Lophocampa ingens

Caterpillar, lateral - Lophocampa ingens

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Erebidae

Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Phaegopterina

Genus Lophocampa

Species ingens (Lophocampa ingens - Hodges#8208)

Hodges Number

8208

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lophocampa ingens (Hy. Edwards, 1881)

Halysidota ingens Hy. Edwards, 1881

Phylogenetic sequence # 930367 (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 11 species of the genus Lophocampa in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Forewing length 21-27 mm. (2)

Identification

Range

Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. (2)

Season

Powell & Opler (2009) reported the adults fly late July to the middle of August. (2)

Moth Photographers group displays records from April to September. (3)

Food

The larval hosts include:(2)

Pinus edulis (pinion Pine) *usda.gov - plant information

Pinus ponderosa (ponderosa pine) *usda.gov - plant information

See Also

Lophocampa argentata

Print References

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 272, plate 48, fig. 17. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

US Forest Service

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

2.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 28 December, 2008 - 10:06pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ron M.
Last updated 2 December, 2013 - 8:25pm

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