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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

Possibly Pygarctia neomexicana ? - Pygarctia neomexicana

Pygarctia neomexicana in the morning - Pygarctia neomexicana

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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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