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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Euclidiini » Ptichodis » Ptichodis ovalis - Hodges#8753 (Ptichodis ovalis)

Species Ptichodis ovalis - Hodges#8753

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

Tribe Euclidiini

Genus Ptichodis

Species ovalis (Ptichodis ovalis - Hodges#8753)

Hodges Number

8753

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ptichodis ovalis (Grote(1), 1883) (2)

Phurys ovalis Grote, 1883

Phylogenetic sequence # 930936 (3)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed seven species of the genus Ptichodis in America north of Mexico. (3)

Size

Wingspan averages 28-33 mm.

Grote (1883) listed a wingspan of 33 mm.

Identification

Grote (1883) and Hampson (1913) descriptions available in print references.

Specimen identified by DNA analysis (BOLD). (4)

Range

Arizona to western Texas.

Season

The main flight period is May to August. (5)

See Also

Ptichodis bucetum with bolder transverse lines.

Ptichodis pacalis

Print References

Grote, A.R., 1883. Notes on new species in Mr. Neumoegens's collection. Papilio 3: 75.

Hampson, G.F., 1913. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. London 13: 111; pl. 224, fig. 9.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (6)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

3.	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 .

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 2 March, 2012 - 12:24pm
Last updated 7 February, 2014 - 12:42am

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