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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 » Pygarctia » Mousey Tiger Moth - Hodges#8250 (Pygarctia murina)

Species Pygarctia murina - Mousey Tiger Moth - Hodges#8250

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Moth - Pygarctia murina Pygarctia murina - Pygarctia murina - male Hairy Caterpillar - Pygarctia murina Hairy Caterpillar - Pygarctia murina Pygarctia pterygostigma ? - Pygarctia murina - female Mousey Tiger Moth - Pygarctia murina Male, Pygarctia murina? - Pygarctia murina - male Pygarctia murina
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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 Pygarctia
Species murina (Mousey Tiger Moth - Hodges#8250)
Hodges Number
8250
Other Common Names
Mouse-colored Tiger Moth
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pygarctia murina (Stretch, 1885)
Euchaetes murina Stretch, 1885
P. oslari Rothschild, 1910
P. murina albistrigata Barnes & McDunnough, 1913 (now a synonym of Pygarctia pterygostigma Dyar, 1909)
P. poliochroa Hampson, 1916
* phylogenetic sequence #930423
Explanation of Names
Specific name murina is Latin for "mouse". (1)
Size
Forewing length 13-16 mm. (2)
Larvae mature to 22 mm (Comstock & Dammers, 1935).
Pupa 11 mm (Comstock & Dammers, 1935).
Identification
Larva - typical "wooly bear" type of this group. Ground color purple-brown or blue-gray, a narrow lemon yellow subdorsal stripe, a wide yellow stripe below spiracles, black pencil tufts and longer white hairs, head dark orange with orange hairs (adapted from Comstock & Dammers).
Range
Southern Texas west to southeastern California, southwest Utah, southern Colorado. (2)
Season
A single flight from late July to September. (2)
Food
Henne found them on a "errect red-stemmed" spurge (Euphorbia) in California and reared them on twinevive (Funastrum, =Philibertia) and spurge (Comstock & Dammers, 1935).
Life Cycle
Pupation occurs in a silk cocoon within surface debris (Comstock & Dammers, 1935).
See Also
Print References
Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough 1913. New N. Am. Lepidoptera with notes on described species. Cont. Nat. Hist. Lep. North America 2(3): 103 (Pygarctia murina albistrigata)
Comstock, J.A. & C.A. Dammers 1935. Notes on the life histories of three butterflies and three moths from California . Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 34(3): 220, pl.59-60
Hampson, G.F. 1916. Descriptions of new species of the family Arctidae in the British Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 23: 238 (Pygarctia poliochroa)
Rothschild, W. 1910. Descriptions of new species of Arctianae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 7: 175 (Pygarctia oslari)
Stretch, R.H. 1885. Descriptions of new species of Heterocera. Entomologica Americana 1(6): 106
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - species page
Range map (butterfliesandmoths.org)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona - pinned photo
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
Contributed by John F. Carr on 27 April, 2009 - 9:07pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Randy Hardy
Last updated 15 August, 2018 - 6:12am

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