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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Omopterini » Toxonprucha » Toxonprucha repentis - Hodges#8673 (Toxonprucha repentis)

Species Toxonprucha repentis - Hodges#8673

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Which Geometrid ? - Toxonprucha repentis Toxonprucha? - Toxonprucha repentis Moth - Toxonprucha repentis Toxonprucha in Palm Springs, California, Is this Toxonprucha repentis? - Toxonprucha repentis Arizona Moth - Toxonprucha repentis Toxonprucha repentis Moth ID? - Toxonprucha repentis I believe this is a specimen of Toxonprucha repentis from southeastern Arizona. - Toxonprucha repentis
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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 Erebinae
Tribe Omopterini
Genus Toxonprucha
Species repentis (Toxonprucha repentis - Hodges#8673)
Hodges Number
8673
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Toxonprucha repentis (Grote, 1881)
Homopyralis repentis Grote, 1881
* phylogenetic sequence #930999
Size
Larvae to 25 mm. (1)
Identification
Larva - white with brownish lines. (1)
Range
Arizona and Texas. (1) MPG records indicate a wider range. (2)
Food
Larval host is catclaw (Acacia greggii). (1)
Print References
Crumb, S.E. 1956. The larvae of the Phalaenidae. USDA Technical Bulletin 1135: 283 (1)
Grote, A.R. 1881. New moths from Arizona, with notes on Catocala and Heliothis. Papilio 1(9): 165
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Moths of Southeastern Arizona
Works Cited
1.The Larvae of the Phalaenidae [Noctuidae]
Samuel Ebb Crumb. 1956. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1135: 1-356.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 2 May, 2009 - 9:26am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 17 January, 2015 - 2:41pm

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