Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Tripudia limbatus - Hodges#9011

Noctuid - Tripudia limbatus Tripudia limbatus 9011? - Tripudia limbatus Tripudia sp? maybe limbatus - Tripudia limbatus Tripudia sp? maybe limbatus - Tripudia limbatus Arizona Moth - Tripudia limbatus Tripudia limbatus Tripudia limbatus Tripudia limbatus
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Cobubathinae
Genus Tripudia
Species limbatus (Tripudia limbatus - Hodges#9011)
Hodges Number
9011
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tripudia limbatus (Hy. Edwards, 1881)
Oribates limbatus H. Edwards, 1881
syn. Agrophila anaea Druce, 1898
Phylogenetic sequence # 931271
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed fifteen species of the genus Tripudia in America north of Mexico. (1)
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2013) added one species. (2)
Size
Forewing Length ~7-9mm
Range
California to New Mexico; Mexico, Guatemala. (3)
Season
The adults are most common during the months of April to June. (4)
See Also
*Tripudia balteata (hindwings are dull brown, not bright yellow).

Also compare similar Acontiinae on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
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.Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico.
J. Donald Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt . 2013. ZooKeys 264: 227-236.
3.A review of the Tripudia quadrifera (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) species complex.
Michael G. Pogue. 2009. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 111: 68-97.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems