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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 » Anarta » Anarta nigrolunata - Hodges#10327 (Anarta nigrolunata)

Species Anarta nigrolunata - Hodges#10327

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
Schinia? - Anarta nigrolunata Anarta nigrolunata Tundra Moth of Wyoming - Anarta nigrolunata Tundra Moth of Wyoming - Anarta nigrolunata Anarta melanopla at Rock Cut - Anarta nigrolunata Lepidoptera from Mount Washington NH - Anarta nigrolunata Diurnal moth up in the alpine, higher elevations - Anarta nigrolunata Mottled Diurnal Moth - Anarta nigrolunata
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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 Anarta
Species nigrolunata (Anarta nigrolunata - Hodges#10327)
Hodges Number
10327
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Anarta nigrolunata Packard, 1867
Noctua melanopa of authors not Thunberg, 1791
Anarta laerta Smith, 1903
Hadula nigrolunata
Phylogenetic Sequence # 932823
Range
across Canada and parts of north-western USA (AB, BC, CO, MO, NF, NH, NM, ON, UT, WA, WY, YK) (1)(2)(3)(4)
See Also
Anarta melanop in Alaska and northern Yukon is separated by DNA or dissection.
See also in subfamily Heliothinae:
Heliothis ononis

See also in the subfamily Oncocnemidinae:
Sympistis zetterstedtii

In the family Crambidae there are some similar looking things:
Chrismania pictipennalis
Metaxmeste nubicola
Pogonogenys proximalis
Loxostege anartalis
Pyrausta dapalis

Check the hind-wings to quickly rule out this Geometridae:
Archiearis infans
Internet References
Wikipedia
Moth Photographers Group
PNW MOTHS
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Works Cited
1.Wikipedia
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.Pacific Northwest Moths
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 24 April, 2010 - 10:15am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 18 September, 2023 - 8:23pm

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