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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 » Purius » Purius superpulverea - Hodges#8256.1 (Purius superpulverea)

Species Purius superpulverea - Hodges#8256.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Purius superpulverea - Hodges #8256.1 - Purius superpulverea - female

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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 Purius

Species superpulverea (Purius superpulverea - Hodges#8256.1)

Hodges Number

8256.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Purius superpulverea (Dyar, 1925) (1)(2)

Spodarctia superpulverea Dyar, 1925

Phylogenetic sequence # 930394

Range

Southern Texas; Mexico.

Holotype collected October 1924 in Colima, Mexico

Remarks

First United States record from Yturria NWR, Hidalgo County, TX, on 8-III-99, in a light trap , by Ed Knudson.

Print References

Dyar, 1925. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 13: 3,

Bordelon Jr., C. & E. Knudson. 2000. New records of Lepidoptera from Texas and the USA, and illustrations of other interesting species. News of the Lepidopterists' Society, 42(1): 6.

Watson A. & D.T. Goodger. 1986. Catalogue of the Neotropical Tiger-moths. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology, 1: 1-71.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	Catalogue of the Neotropical Tiger-moths Allan Watson; David T. Goodger. 1986. Apollo Books.

2.	Revised checklist of the tiger moths of the Continental United States and Canada B. Christian Schmidt & Paul A. Opler. 2008. Zootaxa 1677: 1–23.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 July, 2013 - 10:40am
Last updated 15 October, 2013 - 4:01pm

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