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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Phaegopterina » Pygarctia » Pygarctia neomexicana - Hodges#8251  (Pygarctia neomexicana)

Species Pygarctia neomexicana - Hodges#8251

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Pygarctia neomexicana - female Possibly Pygarctia neomexicana ? - Pygarctia neomexicana - female Possibly Pygarctia neomexicana ? - Pygarctia neomexicana - female Virbia species? - Pygarctia neomexicana - female Pygarctia neomexicana in the morning - Pygarctia neomexicana - male Pygarctia neomexicana - male
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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 Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)
Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)
Subtribe Phaegopterina
Genus Pygarctia
Species neomexicana (Pygarctia neomexicana - Hodges#8251 )
Hodges Number
8251
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pygarctia neomexicana Barnes, 1904
Phylogenetic sequence # 930425
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included 9 species of the genus Pygarctia in America north of Mexico.(1)
Identification

Det. Bob Patterson and Ed Knudson (Texas Lepidoptera Survey)
Range
sw US (AZ-TX-CO-UT) (few records) - Map (MPG)
Season
The flight period is April to September. (2)
Food
The larval host is unknown.
See Also

Euchaetes perlevis lacks the white forewing fringe.


Ctenucha multifaria found in California and has blue abdomen
Print References
Barnes, W., 1904. New species of North American Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 36(6): 165-173. (3)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - MPG (2)
Butterflies and Moths of North America - BAMONA (4)
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.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.New species of North American Lepidoptera
William Barnes. 1904. The Canadian Entomologist, 36(8): 237-244 .
4.Butterflies of North America
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 April, 2012 - 11:27am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Randy Hardy
Last updated 6 June, 2017 - 10:40pm

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