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Species Polia nugatis - Hodges#10281

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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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