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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Eriopygini » Protorthodes » Protorthodes mulina  - Hodges#10562 (Protorthodes mulina)

Species Protorthodes mulina - Protorthodes mulina - Hodges#10562

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Eriopygini
Genus Protorthodes
Species mulina (Protorthodes mulina - Hodges#10562)
Hodges Number
10562
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Protorthodes mulina (Schaus, 1894)
Taeniocampa mulina Schaus, 1894
Syn:
Eriopyga mulina (Schaus, 1894)
Hyssia pseudochroma (Dyar, 1913) (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 933112
Numbers
There are 14 named species of Protorthodes in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)
Size
Wingspan 30 mm. (Schaus)
Identification
The original description as Taeniocampa mulina Schaus, and the Hampson 1905 description as Eriopyga mulina are both available online in the print references below.
Notes on larvae by Crumb 1956(4), and Godfrey 1972(5) in the print references below.
Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (6)
Range
Arizona to Colorado and Texas, south to Mexico. (7), (8), (2)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Adults have been recorded mostly from April to June, September to November. (2)
Food
Larval host is uncertain. (4)
See Also
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group
Print References
Clarke, J.F.G. 1940. United States records of Tropical American Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 42: 155.
Godfrey G.L. 1972. A review and reclassification of caterpillars of the subfamily Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of America north of Mexico. Technical Bulletin 1450. p. 120. (5)
Hampson, G.F. 1905. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. 293.
Lafontaine, J.D, J.B. Walsh & C.D. Ferris. 2014. A revision of the genus Protorthodes McDunnough with descriptions of a new genus and four new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Eriopygini). ZooKeys 421: 139-179 (multiple formats). (9)
Schaus, W. 1894. New Species of Noctuidae from Tropical America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 21(3): 237.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona (8)
Works Cited
1.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.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 .
4.The Larvae of the Phalaenidae [Noctuidae]
Samuel Ebb Crumb. 1956. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1135: 1-356.
5.A Review and Reclassification of Larvae of the Subfamily Hadeninae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) of America North of Mexico
George L. Godfrey. 1972. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1450: 1-265.
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
7.Moths of Dallas County, Texas
8.Moths of Southeast Arizona
9.A revision of the genus Protorthodes McDunnough with descriptions of a new genus and four new species
Lafontaine, J.D, J.B. Walsh & C.D. Ferris. 2014. ZooKeys 421: 139-179.
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 September, 2009 - 12:43am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 24 May, 2015 - 3:34pm

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