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Species Psilopleura polia - Hodges#8276.1

Psilopleura polia - Hodges #8276.1 - Psilopleura polia - male
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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 Erebidae
Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)
Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)
Subtribe Euchromiina
Genus Psilopleura
Species polia (Psilopleura polia - Hodges#8276.1)
Hodges Number
8276.1
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Psilopleura polia Druce, 1898
Phylogenetic sequence # 930450
Numbers
The genus Psilopleura has two species listed for America, north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Druce (1898) reported the wingspan as 38 mm.
Range
southmost Texas to Central America. - Map (MPG)
Holotype collected Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu.
Season
Texas has November records.
Print References
Druce, H., 1898. LXII. Descriptions of some new species of Syntomidae, chiefly in the Oxford Museum. Annuals and Magazine of Natural History, 7(1): 407.
Hampson, G.F., 1898. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 268.
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
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 July, 2013 - 12:08pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 21 February, 2019 - 10:04pm

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