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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 » Eupseudosoma » Snowy Eupseudosoma Moth - Hodges#8257 (Eupseudosoma involuta)

Species Eupseudosoma involuta - Snowy Eupseudosoma Moth - Hodges#8257

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Eupseudosoma
Species involuta (Snowy Eupseudosoma Moth - Hodges#8257)
Hodges Number
8257
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eupseudosoma involuta (Sepp, 1849)
Phalaena involuta Sepp, [1855]
Phylogenetic sequence # 930389 (1)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed Eupseudosoma involuta as the only member of the genus in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Wingspan about 33 mm.
Range
Florida, Antilles, Mexico to Brazil.
Food
The larval host is Eucalyptus species.
See Also
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Hampson, G.F., 1901. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. 29.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
Moths of Jamaica
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.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 May, 2011 - 3:25pm
Last updated 20 September, 2014 - 8:37am

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