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Species Afrida exegens - Hodges#8103.1

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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 Nolidae (Nolid Moths)
Subfamily Afridinae
Genus Afrida
Species exegens (Afrida exegens - Hodges#8103.1)
Hodges Number
8103.1
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Afrida exegens Dyar, 1922 (1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 931160
Numbers
Dyar (1922) reported the wingspan 20 mm.
Range
Western Texas, Arizona. (2)
Holotype ♀ near Mexico City, Mexico, July 1921, R. Müeller.
Print References
Dyar, H.G., 1922. New American moths and notes. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 10: 8.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Moths of Southeastern Arizona. . . . pinned photo (4)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (2)
Works Cited
1.Revised checklist of the tiger moths of the Continental United States and Canada
B. Christian Schmidt & Paul A. Opler. 2008. Zootaxa 1677: 1–23.
2.Butterflies of North America
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.Moths of Southeast Arizona
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 July, 2013 - 10:30am
Last updated 18 July, 2013 - 4:23pm

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