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Species Tripudia luxuriosa - Hodges#9008

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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 Cobubathinae
Genus Tripudia
Species luxuriosa (Tripudia luxuriosa - Hodges#9008)
Hodges Number
9008
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tripudia luxuriosa Smith, 1900 (1)
Phylogentic sequence #931267(2)
Size
Wingspan 12-14 mm.
Identification
Smith (1900) original description is in PDF. (1)
Range
Arizona to Texas. (3).
Food
Larval host Carlowrightia parviflora (4)
Print References
Smith, J.B. 1900. A hundred new moths of the family Noctuidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 490. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (5)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)(6)
Lepbarcoding.org
Works Cited
1.A hundred new moths of the family Noctuidae
John B. Smith. 1900. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 22(1203): 413-495.
2.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 .
3.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
4.Supp. Document S2: Collection data, life histories, and expanded discussion of taxonomic implications, in Keegan et al. (2021)
Wagner, D.L., and K.L. Keegan. 2021. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 5(3): 1-24.
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 September, 2009 - 8:46pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy, Kevin Keegan
Last updated 25 May, 2021 - 10:47am

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