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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 cuta - Hodges#9094 (Ponometia cuta)

Species Ponometia cuta - Hodges#9094

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Bird Dropping moth (one of many) - Ponometia cuta

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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 cuta (Ponometia cuta - Hodges#9094)

Hodges Number

9094

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ponometia cuta (Smith, 1905) (1)

Tarachidia cuta (Smith, 1905)

Acontia cuta Smith, 1905 (2)

Phylogenetic sequence # 931318 (3)

Size

Smith (1905) listed a wingspan of 19 mm. (2)

Poole lists a forewing length of one individual 8 mm. (4)

Identification

Smith (1905) original description as Acontia cuta is available online to read or PDF. (2)

Range

Poole lists the range to inlude western Texas to southern California and most of northern Mexico. (4)

Moth Photographers Group map (5)

Holotype from Santa Rita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona. (2)

Season

The main flight period appears to be April to September. (5)

Food

Poole reports host and immature stages are unknown. (4)

See Also

Ponometia heonyx

Ponometia dorneri

Print References

Smith, J.B., 1905. New Species of Noctuidæ for 1905, No. 3. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 13(4): 211. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Noctuidae of North America - (nearctica.com) (4)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the New World genera of the subfamily Acontiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) J. Donald Lafontaine, Robert W. Poole . 2010. ZooKeys 39: 137–160 .

2.	New species of Noctuidae for 1905, No. 3 John B Smith. 1905. Journal of The New York Entomological Society, 13: 188--211.

3.	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 .

4.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 20 August, 2006 - 5:46pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Chris Grinter, Randy Hardy
Last updated 15 September, 2014 - 9:42pm

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