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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Ponometia » Ponometia clausula - Hodges#9086 (Ponometia clausula)

Species Ponometia clausula - Hodges#9086

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

Ponometia clausula, 9086 - Ponometia clausula

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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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)

Tribe Acontiini

Genus Ponometia

Species clausula (Ponometia clausula - Hodges#9086)

Hodges Number

9086

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ponometia clausula (Grote, 1882)

Xanthoptera clausula Grote, 1882

Tarachidia clausula

* phylogenetic sequence #931310

Size

Forewing length 7 mm

Range

Arizona; west Texas (records from Val Verde and Terrell counties in Texas).

Other similarly marked yellow and brown moths include:

Print References

Grote, A. R. 1882. Some new Noctuidae and notes. Papilio 2(9-10): 186

Hodges, R. W. (ed.) 1983. Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico. (1)

Lafontaine, J. D. & B. C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

Moth of Southeastern Arizona - photograph of pinned adult

Nearctica - species page

Works Cited

1.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

2.	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 .

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 28 July, 2010 - 3:02pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 23 April, 2013 - 8:55pm

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