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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) » Xylenini » Xylenina » Pinions (Lithophane) » Lithophane ponderosa - Hodges#9924.1 (Lithophane ponderosa)

Species Lithophane ponderosa - Hodges#9924.1

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

Noctuidae: Lithophane ponderosa - Lithophane ponderosa

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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

Subtribe Xylenina

Genus Lithophane (Pinions)

Species ponderosa (Lithophane ponderosa - Hodges#9924.1 )

Hodges Number

9924.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lithophane ponderosa Troubridge & Lafontaine, 2003 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932560 (2)

Size

Forewing length 17–21 mm. (3)

Identification

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

Range

California to Colorado and British Columbia.

Habitat

open ponderosa pine forest (1)

See Also

Lithophane atara

Print References

Troubridge, J.T & D. Lafontaine, 2003. A review of the pine-feeding Lithophane lepida species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), with descriptions of two new species. The Canadian Entomologist 135(1): 53–62. (1)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (3)

Moth Photographers Group

Noctuoidea of Canada

Lepbarcoding.org

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

Works Cited

1.	A review of the pine-feeding Lithophane lepida species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), with descriptions of two new species James T. Troubridge, J. Donald Lafontaine. 2003. The Canadian Entomologist, 135(1): 53-62.

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.	Pacific Northwest Moths

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 March, 2012 - 9:44am
Additional contributions by Steve Morris
Last updated 22 December, 2023 - 10:28am

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