Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

National Moth Week was July 23-31, 2022! See moth submissions.

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29

Photos of insects and people from the 2015 gathering in Wisconsin, July 10-12


Previous events


TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Tripudia rectangula - Hodges#9003.1

9003 - Tripudia rectangula 9003.1 -  - Tripudia rectangula Owlet Moth - Hodges #9003.1 - Tripudia rectangula Second brown moth with a dark saddle - Tripudia rectangula Tripudia rectangula Noctuidae, herbivory - Tripudia rectangula Noctuidae, herbivory - Tripudia rectangula Tripudia rectangula
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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 Cobubathinae
Genus Tripudia
Species rectangula (Tripudia rectangula - Hodges#9003.1)
Hodges Number
9003.1
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tripudia rectangula Pogue, 2009 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 931261(2)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed fifteen species of the genus Tripudia in America north of Mexico. (2)
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2013) added one species. (3)
Range
Pogue (2009) has Tripudia quadrifera confined to Texas and T. rectangula occupying the remainder of the North American range.(1)
Food
The larval host plant is Ruellia sp. (wild petunia). (1)
Works Cited
1.A review of the Tripudia quadrifera (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) species complex.
Michael G. Pogue. 2009. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 111: 68-97.
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.Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico.
J. Donald Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt . 2013. ZooKeys 264: 227-236.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems