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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Eriopygini » Orthodes » Orthodes furtiva - Hodges#10586 (Orthodes furtiva)

Species Orthodes furtiva - Hodges#10586

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

Orthodes majuscula - Rustic Quaker - Hodges#10585 ? - Orthodes furtiva

Orthodes. Could you kindly determine the species? - Orthodes furtiva

Please help us to identify this moth. - Orthodes furtiva - male

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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Eriopygini

Genus Orthodes

Species furtiva (Orthodes furtiva - Hodges#10586)

Hodges Number

10586

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Orthodes furtiva McDunnough, 1943 (1)

syn:

Hexorthodes planalis [#10595]

Phylogenetic sequence # 933137 (2)

Numbers

There are eleven named species of Orthodes in America north of Mexico. (2), (1)

Identification

Range

Southern Arizona and Texas. (3), (4), (5)

Holotype: USA: Texas, Brownsville. (6)

Moth Photographers Group map

Bug Guide map

Season

Records from March, August to September. (2)

Food

Larval host is unknown.

See Also

Compare to related species on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Texas Lepidoptera Survey collection @ 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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 2B: Macro-Moths Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2004. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. xiv + 59 pp. 20 plates.

4.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

5.	Moths of Dallas County, Texas

6.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 1 October, 2012 - 2:33pm
Last updated 15 March, 2013 - 5:14pm

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