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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Ponometia » Ponometia acutus - Hodges#9105 (Ponometia acutus)

Species Ponometia acutus - Hodges#9105

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

Arizona Bird Dropping Moth - Ponometia acutus

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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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)

Tribe Acontiini

Genus Ponometia

Species acutus (Ponometia acutus - Hodges#9105)

Hodges Number

9105

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ponometia acutus (Smith, 1905)(1)

Conochares acutus Smith, 1905

Thalpocharea catalina Smith, 1906

Phylogenetic sequence # 931332 (2)

Numbers

Size

Forewing length 9-12 mm. (3)

Identification

Description at Nearctica.

Range

Southwestern United States, from central California to Arizona. (4), (5), (3)

Food

Larvae have been reared on ragweed (Ambrosia). (1)

See Also

Ponometia altera

Print References

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. pl.50.21, p.280 (3)

Smith, J. B. 1905. New species of Noctuidae for 1905, no. 3. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 13(4): 206

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (6)

Nearctica (7)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the New World genera of the subfamily Acontiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) J. Donald Lafontaine, Robert W. Poole . 2010. ZooKeys 39: 137–160 .

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.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

4.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

5.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

7.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

Contributed by Chris Grinter on 28 July, 2010 - 7:01pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 9 April, 2014 - 8:00pm

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