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

Genus Phragmatobia

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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 Spilosomina
Genus Phragmatobia
Numbers
There are three named species of Phragmatobia in America north of Mexico.(1)
Range
holarctic
in North America, all of Canada plus northern United States
Print References
Newman, J.H. & J.P. Donahue 1966. The genus Phragmatobia in North America, with a description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae), The Michigan Entomologist, Vo. 1, No. 2.(2)
Internet References
pinned adult images of all 3 species in North America (CBIF)
Works Cited
1.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 .
2.The genus Phragmatobia in North America, with a description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)
Julian P. Donahue, John H. Newman. 1966. The Michigan Entomologist 1(2).