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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) » Apameini » Borer Moths (Papaipema) » Papaipema polymniae - Hodges#9469 (Papaipema polymniae)

Species Papaipema polymniae - Hodges#9469

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

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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 Apameini

Genus Papaipema (Borer Moths)

Species polymniae (Papaipema polymniae - Hodges#9469)

Hodges Number

9469

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Papaipema polymniae Bird, 1917 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932490

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 47 species of the genus Papaipema in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Bird (1917) listed the wingspan as 32-43 mm. (1)

Identification

The original description is available online. (1)

Range

Eastern United States. (3), (4)

Season

The flight period averages August to December. (4)

Food

Larvae have been found on Smallanthus uvedalius (L.) Mack. ex Small [Polymnia uvedalis] (Leaf-cup). (5)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (4)

Print References

Bird, H. 1917. New species and histories in Papaipema SM. (Lepidoptera) No. 19, The Canadian Entomologist, 49: 121. (6), (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	New species and histories in Papaipema SM. (Lepidoptera) No. 19 Henry Bird. 1917. The Canadian Entomologist, 49(4): 121-128.

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.	Kentucky Butterfly Net Database (moths also)

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

6.	The Canadian Entomologist- Journal available for free at Internet Archive

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 7 October, 2010 - 4:43pm
Last updated 22 September, 2013 - 9:17am

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