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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) » Noctuini » Agrotina » Richia » Richia parentalis - Hodges#10882 (Richia parentalis)

Species Richia parentalis - Hodges#10882

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · 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 Noctuini
Subtribe Agrotina
Genus Richia
Species parentalis (Richia parentalis - Hodges#10882)
Hodges Number
10882
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Richia parentalis (Grote, 1879) (1)
Agrotis parentalis Grote, 1879 (2), (3), (4)
Phylogenetic sequence # 933264
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed five species of the genus Richia in America north of Mexico. (5)
Size
Forewing length 16-19 mm.(6)
Identification
Grote (1879) original description as Agrotis parentalis is available in the print references. (2), (3)
Range
North Dakota to western Texas and west throughout the Great Basin. (7), (8), (8), (9)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Habitat
Pinyon-juniper and ponderosa pine forests.
Season
Adults are most often reported from June to October. (6)
See Also
Richia chortalis
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Grote, A.R. 1879. New western Noctuidae. The North American Entomologist. p. 44. (2),(3)
Powell, J.A., & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. plate 56, figs. 42-43; p. 309. (6)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (10)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (11)
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.New western Noctuidæ
A. R. Grote. 1879. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 61-66.
3.The North American Entomologist
Augustus Radcliffe Grote . 1879. Reinecke & Zesch.
4.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
5.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 .
6.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
7. Moths of Rocky Mountain National Park (USGS)
8.Survey of Utah Moth Species
9.Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List
10.North American Moth Photographers Group
11.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 September, 2009 - 8:10pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 29 November, 2021 - 5:06am

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