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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 » Ectypia » Ectypia bivittata - Hodges#8247 (Ectypia bivittata)

Species Ectypia bivittata - Hodges#8247

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Ectypia sp. - Ectypia bivittata Ectypia bivittata abdomen - Ectypia bivittata Hodges #8247 – Ectypia bivittata ? - Ectypia bivittata Ectypia bivittata Ectypia bivittata Moth - Ectypia bivittata #8247 - Ectypia bivittata - Ectypia bivittata Ectypia bivittata
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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 Ectypia
Species bivittata (Ectypia bivittata - Hodges#8247)
Hodges Number
8247
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ectypia bivittata Clemens, 1861
Spilosoma nigroflava Graef, 1887
Numbers
There are three named species of Ectypia in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Wingspan about 46 mm.
Identification
Range
Arizona to Texas and Colorado.
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Adults are most common from February to September.
See Also
Ectypia mexicana found in western Texas.
Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Graef, E.L. 1887. Some new Bombycidae. Entomologica Americana. 3(3): 43.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System(2)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)
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.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 6 May, 2012 - 1:28pm
Last updated 23 June, 2018 - 12:09pm

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