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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Ponometia » Ponometia pulchra - Hodges#9104 (Ponometia pulchra)

Species Ponometia pulchra - Hodges#9104

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Print References · 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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)
Tribe Acontiini
Genus Ponometia
Species pulchra (Ponometia pulchra - Hodges#9104)
Hodges Number
9104
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ponometia pulchra (Barnes & McDunnough, 1910)
Azenia pulchra Barnes and McDunnough, 1910
Phylogenetic sequence # 931331 (1)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 34 species of the genus Ponometia in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Wingspan about 19 mm.
Range
Texas to Colorado; disjunct population in southern California. [Source? Available records seem all to be from Texas.]
Food
Larval host unknown.
Print References
Barnes, W. & J. McDunnough, 1910. New Species and Varieties of North American Lepidoptera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 18: 158.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Nearctica by Robert W. Poole
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
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.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 September, 2012 - 11:54pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Chuck Sexton, Steve Morris
Last updated 24 April, 2023 - 3:29pm

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