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Genus Plagiomimicus

Plagio pair - Plagiomimicus spumosum Black-barred Brown - Plagiomimicus pityochromus Arizona Moth - Plagiomimicus n-sp Black-barred Brown Moth - Plagiomimicus pityochromus Frothy Moth - Hodges#9748 - Plagiomimicus spumosum Noctuidae: Plagiomimicus spumosum - Plagiomimicus spumosum Plagiomimicus pityochromus - Black-barred Brown - Hodges#9754 - 07.31.23 - Knox Co., NE - Mark A. Brogie 1 - Plagiomimicus pityochromus Plagiomimicus dimidiata
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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 Stiriinae
Tribe Stiriini
Genus Plagiomimicus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Plagiomimicus Grote, 1873
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 18 species of the genus Plagiomimicus in America north of Mexico. (1)
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2011) added Plagiomimicus pyralina to the checklist. (2)
There are 4 species in Canada (CBIF)
Print References
Grote, A.R., 1873. Descriptions of three genera of Noctuidae. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 1: 182.
Internet References
pinned adult images of 2 species from south-central Canada (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.Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico
J. Donald Lafontaine & B. Christian Schmidt. 2011. Zookeys, 149.1805.