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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) » Xylenini » Incertae sedis » Pseudanthoecia » Pseudanthoecia tumida - Hodges#9617 (Pseudanthoecia tumida)

Species Pseudanthoecia tumida - Hodges#9617

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

Male Pseudanthoecia tumida - Pseudanthoecia tumida - male

Noctuidae - Pseudanthoecia tumida Male on Gumweed - Pseudanthoecia tumida - male

Moth on composite - Pseudanthoecia tumida

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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 Xylenini

No Taxon (Incertae sedis)

Genus Pseudanthoecia

Species tumida (Pseudanthoecia tumida - Hodges#9617)

Hodges Number

9617

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pseudanthoecia tumida (Grote, 1880) (1)

Lygranthmcia tumida Grote, 1880

Phylogenetic sequence # 932748

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed Pseudanthoecia tumida as the only member of the genus in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Hampson (1906) reported the wingspan as 24-28 mm.

Identification

The original description as Lygranthmcia tumida Grote) is available in the print references listed below.

Photo Identified by Chuck Harp.

Range

Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. (2), (3)

Season

The main flight period is July to September. (2)

Food

The larval host plant is uncertain but larvae have been found on Helianthus annuus L. (common sunflower).

See Also

Schinia illustra

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1880. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 3(1): 30.

Hampson, G.F. 1906. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaeae in the British Museum, 6: 115.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

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.	Annotated List of Moths Recorded at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 20 January, 2013 - 11:39am
Last updated 10 September, 2013 - 12:44am

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