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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 chortalis - Hodges#10881 (Richia chortalis)

Species Richia chortalis - Hodges#10881

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

Richia parentalis 10882? - Richia chortalis

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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 chortalis (Richia chortalis - Hodges#10881)

Hodges Number

10881

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Richia chortalis, (Harvey, 1875)

Richia aratrix (form), (Harvey, 1875)

Numbers

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

Size

Wingspan approximately 35 mm.

Identification

The first segment of the middle tarsus is greatly swollen so the last four segments look like little aborted appendage dangling on the end. (Don Lafontaine)

Range

Arizona to Utah to Texas. (2), (3)

See Also

Richia parentalis - the middle basitarsus is only slightly swollen and mostly resembles the hind tarsus. (Don Lafontaine)

Print References

Lafontaine, J.D. 2004. The Moth of North America. Fascicle 27.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 131; pl. F.1-5.(4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

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.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

3.	Moths of Dallas County, Texas

4.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part), Noctuinae (Part-Agrotini), Fascicle 27.1 J. Donald Lafontaine. 2004. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 10 February, 2010 - 10:32pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 7 December, 2013 - 9:38pm

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