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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) » Noctuini » Agrotina » Dichagyris » Dichagyris polycala - Hodges#10875 (Dichagyris polycala)

Species Dichagyris polycala - Hodges#10875

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Unid. Noctuid - Dichagyris polycala Dichagyris sp? - Dichagyris polycala Dichagyris sp? - Dichagyris polycala
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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 Noctuini
Subtribe Agrotina
Genus Dichagyris
Species polycala (Dichagyris polycala - Hodges#10875)
Hodges Number
10875
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dichagyris polycala Lafontaine, 2004 (1)
syn. D. pampolycala (Dyar, 1912) (2)
Phylogenetic sequence # 933243
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included 26 species of the genus Dichagyris in America north of Mexico. (3)
Size
The wingspan averages 34 mm. (4)
Identification
Range
Western Texas to Arizona. (5), (4)
Print References
Lafontaine, J.D., 2004. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 100; pl. D.5-6. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (4)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
Works Cited
1.The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part), Noctuinae (Part-Agrotini), Fascicle 27.1
J. Donald Lafontaine. 2004. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
2.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
3.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 .
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.Moths of Southeast Arizona
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 August, 2013 - 12:57am
Last updated 7 December, 2013 - 9:32pm

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