Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
 

Register · Log In
HomeGuideID RequestRecentFrassForumsDonateHelp
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Registration is open for the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2023

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


Previous events
TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData
Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Dioptinae

Subfamily Dioptinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range
Phryganidia californica - caterpillar - Phryganidia californica Large moth - Phryganidia californica - male Moth pupa - Phryganidia californica California oak moth (Phryganidia californica) pupae (3 of 4) - Phryganidia californica Oak Moth - Phryganidia californica - male Patterned butterfly pupa? - Phryganidia californica White moth - Phryganidia californica - female Lepidopteran pupa - Phryganidia californica
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)
Subfamily Dioptinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly placed in a separate family (Dioptidae), now included within family Notodontidae
Numbers
2 species in 2 genera in North America listed at All-Leps
NOTODONTIDAE
DIOPTINAE
Phryganidia Packard, 1864
1. californica Packard, 1864
Zunacetha Walker, 1863
2. annulata (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
synonym bipartita Walker, 1863
synonym nervosa (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Range
Zunacetha annulata: Rio Grande Valley, Texas (butterfliesandmoths.org)
California Oakworm (Phryganidia californica): west coast of United States (butterfliesandmoths.org)
Contributed by Joyce Gross on 15 October, 2006 - 6:26pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn, Edward Ruden
Last updated 11 December, 2019 - 8:30am

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2024 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State University logo

Printer Friendly Version 		Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
Site Map
Contact