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Species Tripudia limbatus - Hodges#9011

Tripudia sp? maybe limbatus - Tripudia limbatus

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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 limbatus (Tripudia limbatus - Hodges#9011)

Hodges Number

9011

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tripudia limbatus (Hy. Edwards, 1881)

Oribates limbatus H. Edwards, 1881

syn. Agrophila anaea Druce, 1898

Phylogenetic sequence # 931271

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed fifteen species of the genus Tripudia in America north of Mexico. (1)

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2013) added one species. (2)

Size

Forewing Length ~7-9mm

Range

California to New Mexico; Mexico, Guatemala. (3)

Season

The adults are most common during the months of April to June. (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

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.	Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. J. Donald Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt . 2013. ZooKeys 264: 227-236.

3.	A review of the Tripudia quadrifera (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) species complex. Michael G. Pogue. 2009. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 111: 68-97.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 22 October, 2009 - 9:05am
Additional contributions by James Bailey, Randy Hardy, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 18 November, 2020 - 12:48pm

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