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Genus Pseudeustrotia

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Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia - Pseudeustrotia carneola Unknown moth - Pseudeustrotia carneola Noctuidae: Pseudeustrotia carneola - Pseudeustrotia carneola Pseudeustrotia indeterminata Noctuidae: Pseudeustrotia carneola - Pseudeustrotia carneola Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia - Pseudeustrotia carneola Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia - Pseudeustrotia carneola Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia - Pseudeustrotia carneola
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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Pseudeustrotiini
Genus Pseudeustrotia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

formerly Lithacodia (in part)
misspelled Pseudostrotia at several web sites

Numbers

1 species in North America (nearctica.com)
1 species in Canada (CBIF)

Range

holarctic: in North America, occurs from Alberta to Newfoundland, south to Florida, west to Arkansas and Colorado
the very similar Pseudeustrotia candidula occurs in Eurasia

Remarks

Pseudeustrotia is the name used in Kristensen N.P. (1999) [Lepidoptera: Moths and butterflies. Volume 1: Evolution, systematics and biogeography. Handbook of Zoology. Walter de Gruyter. Berlin/New York], and followed by The Moths of Canada and Charles Covell on pages xiii-xvi in the 2nd edition of Moths of Eastern North America (2005).

Internet References

pinned adult image of P. carneola (CBIF)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 7 August, 2005 - 1:35pm
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor
Last updated 27 February, 2016 - 1:47pm

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