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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Bertholdia

Lepidoptera, a gray and red moth - Bertholdia trigona unkn moth - Bertholdia trigona Moth - Bertholdia trigona Arizona Moth - Bertholdia trigona Grote's Bertholdia? - Bertholdia trigona Grote’s Bertholdia - Bertholdia trigona Grote’s Bertholdia - Bertholdia trigona Arizona Moth - Bertholdia trigona
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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 Bertholdia
Numbers
2 species in North America listed at All-Leps
Size
wingspan 35-45 mm, based on several Internet photos
Identification
Adult: forewing long, pointed, brown with large pale yellow translucent patch along costa near apex; several black dots within translucent patch; terminal line checkered pale and dark; hindwing short, white, diffused with pink along inner margin and at base; abdomen red; thorax brown with red accents
Range
southwestern United States, north in the mountains to Wyoming and South Dakota
Internet References
pinned adult images of B. trigona (Bruce Walsh, Moths of Southeastern Arizona)
pinned adult image of B. specularis (Matthew Barnes, Moths of Nicaragua)
pinned adult image of B. trigona by Paul Opler, plus US distribution map (butterfliesandmoths.org)