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Subfamily Notodontinae

Elegant prominent - Pheosidea elegans - male unknown moth - Notodonta torva Georgian Prominent - Paraeschra georgica Notodontidae, adult, lateral - Paraeschra georgica California Prominent - Pheosia californica Gluphisia? - Gluphisia septentrionis - male Hyperaeschra tortuosa? - Paraeschra tortuosa Pheosia rimosa
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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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)
Subfamily Notodontinae
Numbers
contains two tribes in North America: Dicranurini and Notodontini
Remarks
In North America the tribe Dicranurini contains 3 genera (Cerura, Furcula, Gluphisia), and the tribe Notodontini contains 5 genera (Hyperaeschra, Nerice, Notodonta, Odontosia, Pheosia) - see All-Leps
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 27 February, 2006 - 12:15am
Last updated 5 December, 2008 - 11:55pm

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