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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Phytometrini » Phytometra » Phytometra obliqualis - Hodges#8483 (Phytometra obliqualis)

Species Phytometra obliqualis - Hodges#8483

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

Phytometra obliqualis - Hodges #8483 - Phytometra obliqualis

Phytometra obliquala, Hodges # 8483 ? - Phytometra obliqualis

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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 Boletobiinae

Tribe Phytometrini

Genus Phytometra

Species obliqualis (Phytometra obliqualis - Hodges#8483)

Hodges Number

8483

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phytometra obliqualis (Dyar, 1912) (1)

Antarchaea obliqualis Dyar, 1912

Synonyms:

Phytometra curvata (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916)

Antarchaea oma Dyar, 1912

Phylogenetic sequence # 930719

Numbers

There are five species of the genus Phytometra in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

The wingspan is 22-27 mm.

Range

Arizona to Texas and Oklahoma(2).

Syntypes: Mexico: Tehuacan, Mexico City.

See Also

Phytometra apicata which is smaller.

Phytometra ernestinana

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough, 1917. Additions and corrections to Vol. 3. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 4(1): 3.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

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.	Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 September, 2009 - 6:17pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 21 June, 2018 - 12:53pm

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