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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) » Hadenini » Polia » Polia nugatis - Hodges#10281 (Polia nugatis)

Species Polia nugatis - Hodges#10281

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

Noctuidae: Polia nugatis - Polia nugatis

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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 Hadenini

Genus Polia

Species nugatis (Polia nugatis - Hodges#10281)

Hodges Number

10281

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Polia nugatis (Smith, 1898)

Mamestra nugatis Smith, 1898 (1)

syn. Mamestra tufa Smith, 1905

Phylogenetic sequence # 932873 (2)

Size

The forewing length is 19-24 mm. (3)

Smith (1898) listed the wingspan as 44 mm.

Identification

Smith (1898) original description as Mamestra nugatis is available online in the print references.

Range

California to Colorado, British Columbia and Alberta. (4), (4)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

The adults are most common from July to September. (5), (3)

Food

The larval host plant is Artemisia tridentata Nutt. (big sagebrush) Asteraceae. (3)

See Also

Polia purpurissata

Andropolia diversilineata

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Smith, J.B. 1898. Notes on the genus Mamestra Ochs., with descriptions of new species. Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 9: 240.

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (3)

Moth Photographers Group (5)

University of Alberta, E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

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.	Pacific Northwest Moths

4.	Survey of Utah Moth Species

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 26 November, 2009 - 12:19am
Last updated 25 September, 2014 - 6:32pm

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