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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Heliothinae » Psectrotarsia » Psectrotarsia suavis - Hodges#11066 (Psectrotarsia suavis)

Species Psectrotarsia suavis - Hodges#11066

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

yellow moth with pink boarder - Psectrotarsia suavis

Psectrotarsia suavis - Psectrotarsia suavis

Psectrotarsia suavis - Hodges#11066 - Psectrotarsia suavis

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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 Heliothinae

Genus Psectrotarsia

Species suavis (Psectrotarsia suavis - Hodges#11066)

Hodges Number

11066

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Psectrotarsia suavis (Hy. Edwards, 1884)

Syn: Erythroecia suavis (Hy. Edwards)

Phylogentic sequence # 932043 (1)

Numbers

Size

Forewing length. (2)

males 13.7-17.3 mm

females 16.2-16.6 mm

Identification

Forewing ground color yellow with bright pink markings. (2)

Range

Southwestern South Dakota; northeast and western Nebraska; northern and southwestern Kansas; eastern Colorado; New Mexico east of the Rocky Mountains; southern Arizona; panhandle of Oklahoma and Texas; also central, southern and western Texas.(2)

Habitat

Shortgrass prairie. (2)

Season

Specimens examined by Pogue(2) were collected from June to September.

Food

The larval host is unknown. (2)

See Also

Psectrotarsia hebardi

Xanthia tatago

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Moths of North Dakota

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.	Revision of the genus Psectrotarsia Dognin, 1907 (Lepridoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae) Michael G. Pogue. 2007.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by tom murray on 9 January, 2010 - 2:05pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman
Last updated 9 April, 2014 - 4:20pm

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