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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) » Eriopygini » Protorthodes » Protorthodes orobia - Hodges#10565 (Protorthodes orobia)

Species Protorthodes orobia - Hodges#10565

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · 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 Eriopygini

Genus Protorthodes

Species orobia (Protorthodes orobia - Hodges#10565)

Hodges Number

10565

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Protorthodes orobia (Harvey, 1876) (1)

Mamestra orobia Harvey, 1876 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 933114

Numbers

There are 14 named species of Protorthodes in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Wingspan about 20 mm. (Harvey)

Identification

The original description as Mamestra orobia Harvey, is available at the link in the print references below.

Range

Central and southern Texas.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Food

Larval host is unknown.

See Also

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Harvey, L.F. 1876. New Noctuidae. The Canadian Entomologist 3(1): 154.

Lafontaine, J.D, J.B. Walsh & C.D. Ferris 2014. A revision of the genus Protorthodes McDunnough with descriptions of a new genus and four new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Eriopygini). ZooKeys 421: 139-179 (multiple formats). (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

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

3.	A revision of the genus Protorthodes McDunnough with descriptions of a new genus and four new species Lafontaine, J.D, J.B. Walsh & C.D. Ferris. 2014. ZooKeys 421: 139-179.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 10 March, 2011 - 12:02am
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 24 May, 2015 - 3:39pm

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