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Species Properigea costa - Barrens Moth - Hodges#9589

Properigea costa 9589? - Properigea costa

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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 Xylenini

No Taxon (Incertae sedis)

Genus Properigea

Species costa (Barrens Moth - Hodges#9589)

Hodges Number

9589

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Properigea costa (Barnes & Benjamin, 1923)

Namangana costa Barnes & Benjamin, 1923

Phylogenetic sequence # 932720

Numbers

Properigea includes 10 species in America north of Mexico. (1), (2)

Size

Wingspan 27-35 mm.

Range

Occurs in two disjunct populations, one in the Southwest, where it is fairly common from AZ through western OK and TX, and another in the east, where it is rarely encountered and associated mainly with shale barrens from the southern Appalachians northward into Ontario and Quebec.

Recent Lepidopterist Society Season Summary reports from New Mexico, Oklahoma and Georgia.

Originally described from Arizona, Cochise Co., Huachuca Mts.

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Season

Adults are most common from April to October. (2)

Food

Unknown, but likely feeds on some sort of fern according to the Moths of North Carolina site.

Remarks

Moths of North Carolina and other sources suggest that the fairly common western entity of this species may be a distinct species from the disjunct rare eastern population.

Print References

Barnes & Benjamin. 1923. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America. 5(2): 81.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Noctuoidea of Canada

Dalton State

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 18 August, 2010 - 12:13pm
Additional contributions by dennepj10
Last updated 15 May, 2023 - 1:00pm

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