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Species Tripudia chihuahua - Hodges#9004.1

Tripudia chihuahua - Hodges #9004.1 - Tripudia chihuahua - female

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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 Cobubathinae

Genus Tripudia

Species chihuahua (Tripudia chihuahua - Hodges#9004.1)

Hodges Number

9004.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tripudia chihuahua Blanchard & Knudson, 1984 (1)

Explanation of Names

The species is named for the collection region, Chihuahuan Desert. (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed fifteen species of the genus Tripudia in America north of Mexico. (2)

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2013) added one species. (3)

Size

Blanchard & Knudson (1984) reported the forewing length. (1)

♂ 6.8-8.5 mm. (n=20)

♀ 6.8-8.7 mm. (n=20)

Range

Western Texas, New Mexico.

Holotype ♂, Chihuahuan Desert, near Nugent Mountain, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, 8-X-1969, A & M.E. Blanchard.

Season

The main flight period appears to be May to September. (4)

Print References

Blanchard, A. & E.C. Knudson, 1984. A new species of Tripudia Grote (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Western Texas. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 86: 639; figs. 1-9. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Works Cited

1.	A new species of Tripudia (Grote) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from western Texas André Blanchard, Edward C. Knudson. 1984. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 86: 639-642 .

2.	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 .

3.	Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. J. Donald Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt . 2013. ZooKeys 264: 227-236.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 July, 2013 - 12:28pm
Last updated 17 December, 2013 - 8:28am

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