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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 bicolorata - Hodges#9084 (Ponometia bicolorata)

Species Ponometia bicolorata - Hodges#9084

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

Ponometia bicolorata or semiflava? - Ponometia bicolorata

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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 bicolorata (Ponometia bicolorata - Hodges#9084)

Hodges Number

9084

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ponometia bicolorata (Barnes & McDunnough, 1912 (1)

Tarachidia bicolorata Barnes & McDunnough, 1912

Identification

Adult - the outer area of forewing not so dark or contrasting as compared to Tarachidia semiflava. (1)

Range

Southern Arizona to western Texas and south into Mexico.

Food

The larvae have been reared on Heliotropium indicum (Indian heliotrope)

See Also

Tarachidia semiflava

Print References

Barnes, W. & J.H. McDunnough 1912. Fifty new species; notes on the genus Alpheias. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America 1(5): 26, pl.1, f.24 (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Nearctica (5)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the New World genera of the subfamily Acontiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) J. Donald Lafontaine, Robert W. Poole . 2010. ZooKeys 39: 137–160 .

2.	Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America (Vols. 1-4) William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough. 1911. Decatur ILL., The Review Press.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 14 September, 2009 - 11:13am
Additional contributions by Chris Grinter, Randy Hardy
Last updated 17 June, 2018 - 10:19pm

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