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Species Pygarctia abdominalis - Yellow-edged Pygarctia - Hodges#8255

Yellow-edged Pygarctia - Hodges #8255 - Pygarctia abdominalis

grey and pink moth - Pygarctia abdominalis

Pygarctia species - Pygarctia abdominalis

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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 Phaegopterina

Genus Pygarctia

Species abdominalis (Yellow-edged Pygarctia - Hodges#8255)

Hodges Number

8255

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pygarctia abdominalis Grote, 1871

Pygarctia grossbecki Davis, 1913

Phylogenetic sequence # 930430 (1)

Size

Wingspan:

♂ about 35 mm.

♀ about 45 mm.

Identification

Forewing is slate grey with pale yellow along the costa to almost the apex and also along inner margin. The thorax has two orange-yellow strips. Abdomen is orange-yellow above with a row of black dots along the length.

Range

Heppner (2003) included the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts; New Jersey to Florida to Texas. (2), (3)

Included in the Oklahoma checklist. (4)

Season

The adults are most common from April to August. (5)

Heppner (2003) reported February, April to June, August to September in Florida. (3)

Food

Heppner (2003) reported the host plant as unknown. (3)

spurges (Euphorbiacae) and dogbanes (Apocynacae) (6) [Randy Hardy]

See Also

Pygarctia spraguei

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1871. Descriptions of Lepidoptera from Alabama. The Canadian Entomologist, 3: 124.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (8)

Dalton State University

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.	Moths of Dallas County, Texas

3.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

4.	Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	Rare, Declining, and Poorly Known Butterflies and Moths of Forests and Woodlands in the Eastern United States Dale F. Schweitzer, Marc C. Minno, David L. Wagner. 2011. U.S. Forest Service, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, FHTET-2011-01. .

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

8.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 14 July, 2009 - 3:41pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 9 June, 2018 - 4:09pm

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