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Genus Psaphida

Representative Images

moth5 - Psaphida styracis - male Hodges #10014 - Roland's Sallow Moth? - Psaphida rolandi Psaphida thaxterianus - Hodges#10020 (Psaphida thaxterianus) or Psaphida resumens - Figure-Eight Sallow - Hodges#10019 - Psaphida thaxterianus Psaphida styracis eggs - Psaphida styracis Figure-Eight Sallow Moth - Psaphida resumens Psaphida rolandi - Roland's Sallow - Hodges#10014 - Psaphida rolandi - male Psaphida resumens? - Psaphida resumens Moth - Psaphida resumens - 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 Amphipyrinae
Tribe Psaphidini
Subtribe Psaphidina
Genus Psaphida

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Psaphida Walker, 1865
Copivaleria Grote, 1883
Dicopis (synonymous) (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed seven species of the genus Psaphida in America north of Mexico. (2)

Works Cited

1.Wikipedia
2.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 .
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 2 April, 2005 - 10:24pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 11 February, 2020 - 2:00pm

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