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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) » Orthosiini » Orthosia » Orthosia ferrigera - Hodges#10482 (Orthosia ferrigera)

Species Orthosia ferrigera - Hodges#10482

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · 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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Orthosiini

Genus Orthosia

Species ferrigera (Orthosia ferrigera - Hodges#10482)

Hodges Number

10482

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Orthosia ferrigera (Smith, 1894) (1)

Taeniocampa ferrigera Smtih, 1894

Stretchia acutuangula Smith, 1911

S. apicata Smith, 1911

Phylogenetic sequence # 932767 (1)

Size

Forewing length 15-17 mm. (2), (3)

Identification

Hindwing is pink-gray.

Range

California to British Columbia.(3)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

The main flight period appears to be January to May; November record. (3)

Food

The larval host is Quercus garryana Douglas ex Hook. (Oregon white oak). (4)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (3)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (2)

Moth Photographers Group (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD (5)

Nearctica.com

Lepbarcoding.org

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.	Pacific Northwest Moths

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 17 July, 2012 - 8:55pm
Last updated 6 April, 2014 - 9:24pm

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