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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
Orthosia ferrigera Orthosia ferrigera 10482 - Orthosia ferrigera 10482 - Orthosia ferrigera - male 10482 - Orthosia ferrigera Apameini ? - Orthosia ferrigera Orthosia ferrigera Orthosia ferrigera
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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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