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Species Psammathodoxa cochlidioides - Hodges#8529

Psammathodoxa cochlidioides - Hodges #8529 - Psammathodoxa cochlidioides - 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 Hypocalinae
Genus Psammathodoxa
Species cochlidioides (Psammathodoxa cochlidioides - Hodges#8529)
Hodges Number
8529
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Psammathodoxa cochlidioides Dyar, 1921
Psammathodoxa calligrapha (Hampson, 1926)
Phyprosopus calligrapha Hampson 1926
Phylogenetic sequence # 930631
Numbers
Psammathodoxa cochlidioides is the only member of the genus listed for America, north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Dyar (1921) reported a wingspan of 25 mm.
Range
Southern Texas to Mexico.
Holotype Brownsville, Texas.
See Also
Curve-lined Owlet - Phyprosopus callitrichoides
Print References
Dyar, 1921. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 9: 43.
Lafontaine, J. Donald and B. Christian Schmidt. 2015. Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico III. ZooKeys 527: 127–147 (available here)
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 18 July, 2013 - 1:35am
Additional contributions by ceiseman, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 2 July, 2021 - 11:11pm

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