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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Hooktip and False Owlet Moths (Drepanoidea) » Hooktip and False Owlet Moths (Drepanidae) » False Owlet Moths (Thyatirinae) » Habrosynini » Pseudothyatira » Tufted Thyatirine - Hodges#6237 (Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides)

Species Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides - Tufted Thyatirine - Hodges#6237

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Tufted Thyatirid - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides 069 - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides Moth - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides Pseudothyatira - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides Tufted Thyatirid - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Drepanoidea (Hooktip and False Owlet Moths)
Family Drepanidae (Hooktip and False Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Thyatirinae (False Owlet Moths)
Tribe Habrosynini
Genus Pseudothyatira
Species cymatophoroides (Tufted Thyatirine - Hodges#6237)
Hodges Number
6237
Other Common Names
formerly called Tufted Thyatirid (the former family Thyatiridae was reduced to a subfamily of Drepanidae, so the "id" ending was replaced with an "ine" ending)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides (Guenée, 1852)
Thyatira cymatophoroides Guenée, 1852
Lacinia expultrix Grote, 1863
Numbers
the only species in this genus in North America
Size
wingspan 41-43 mm
Identification
Two color forms:

Form: "typical"         Form: "expultrix"
Range
across southern Canada, and all of United States except the Gulf Coast states.
Season
adults fly from April to October
Food
larvae feed on the leaves of alder, birch, maple, oak, poplar, willow
Print References
Grote, A.R. 1863 A revision of the species of Cymatophorina, found in the United States and British America, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 2(1): 58
Guenée, 1852. Noctuelites, Tome 1. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. Tome Cinquiéme. 5(1): 13.
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 27, fig. 5; p. 202. (1)
Internet References
Pacific Northwest Moths (2)
Moth Photographers Group (3)
live adult images of two color forms (Lynn Scott, Ontario)
pinned adult images of two color forms (CBIF)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.Pacific Northwest Moths
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 20 July, 2005 - 2:36am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Stephen_WV, Tony-2, anitagould, Maury Heiman
Last updated 18 August, 2024 - 8:44pm

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