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Species Perigea enixa - Hodges#9689.2

Perigea enixa - Hodges #9689.2 - Perigea enixa Noctuidae sp - Perigea enixa
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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 Condicinae
Tribe Condicini
Genus Perigea
Species enixa (Perigea enixa - Hodges#9689.2 )
Hodges Number
9689.2
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Perigea enixa Grote(1), 1875
Phylogenetic sequence # 931987
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed four species of the genus Perigea in America north of Mexico. (2)
Size
Grote (1875) reported the wingspan as 25 mm.
Range
Central and western Texas.
See Also
Perigea xanthioides
Compare on the plates of Moth Photographers Group. (3)
Print References
Grote, A.R., 1875. XXIII. On the genus Agrotis with additions to the "List of North American Noctuidae". Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 2: 310.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
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.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 24 July, 2013 - 12:06pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 19 November, 2015 - 3:27am

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