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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Ponometia » Ponometia phecolisca - Hodges#9098 (Ponometia phecolisca)

Species Ponometia phecolisca - Hodges#9098

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

possible Ponometia phecolisca - Ponometia phecolisca

Bird Dropping Moth sp.? - Ponometia phecolisca

Ponometia phecolisca? - Ponometia phecolisca

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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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)

Tribe Acontiini

Genus Ponometia

Species phecolisca (Ponometia phecolisca - Hodges#9098)

Hodges Number

9098

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ponometia phecolisca (Druce, 1889)

Acontia phecolisca Druce, 1889

Tarachidia phecolisca

Phylogenetic sequence #931322

Numbers

Thirty-four species of Ponometia are found in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Forewing length 10 mm.

Range

Arizona to Oklahoma and south through Mexico to northern South America; Greater Antilles.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some collection points.

Moth Photographers Group shows records for New York and Illinois. (strays?)

Season

Adults are most common from March through September.

See Also

Related species on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Druce, H. 1889. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Lepidoptera-Heterocera 1: 306.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Nearctica - species page

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) - DNA sequenced specimens

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 .

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 22 August, 2009 - 9:13am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, Chris Grinter, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 28 April, 2023 - 9:19pm

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