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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Litter Moths (Herminiinae) » Palthis » Dark-spotted Palthis - Hodges#8397 (Palthis angulalis)

Species Palthis angulalis - Dark-spotted Palthis - Hodges#8397

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · 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 Erebidae
Subfamily Herminiinae (Litter Moths)
Genus Palthis
Species angulalis (Dark-spotted Palthis - Hodges#8397)
Hodges Number
8397
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Palthis angulalis (Hübner, 1796)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930551
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included two species of the genus Palthis in America north of Mexico.(1)
Size
Wingspan 20-26 mm.
Identification
The lack of the dark patch on the outer margin of FW near apex, and the strongly curved dark median band that doesn't touch the AM line excludes asopialis (dark median band often borders AM line in asopialis).

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Food
Conifers and deciduous trees including ash, alder, maple, spruce, willow (2)
Life Cycle
Larva; larva on food plant; adult
See Also
Palthis asopialis
Faint-spotted Palthis
Print References
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl. 43.5; p. 255.(3)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (4)
Pacific Northwest Moths (5)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)
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.Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.
3.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.Pacific Northwest Moths
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Tony-2, Jason D. Roberts, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy, Blocky
Last updated 16 January, 2024 - 1:33pm

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