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Species Pseudorthodes iole - Hodges#10605.1

Pseudorthodes iole - Hodges #10605.1 - Pseudorthodes iole - 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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Eriopygini

Genus Pseudorthodes

Species iole (Pseudorthodes iole - Hodges#10605.1)

Hodges Number

10605.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pseudorthodes iole (Schaus, 1894)

Eriopyga iole (Schaus, 1894)

Orthodes iole Schaus, 1894

Phylogenetic sequence # 933135

Numbers

The genus Pseudorthodes includes six species in America, north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Schaus (1894) listed a wingspan of 28 mm.

Identification

The original description by Schaus (1894) is available online in the print references below.

Range

Texas; Mexico. (2)

First U.S. record: Texas, Brewster Co., Big Bend National Park, Green Gulch, 28-V-1981, ♂ , collected by Edward C. Knudson, determined by Robert W. Poole. (2)

Holotype collected Jalapa, Mexico.

Print References

Blanchard, A. & E.C. Knudson. 1985. New U.S. records and other interesting moths from Texas. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 39: 2, fig. 4. (2)

Hampson, G.F., 1905. Catalogue of Noctuidae in the collection of the British Museum, 5: 343.

Schaus, W., 1894. New species of Noctuidae from Tropical America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 21: 237.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

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.	New U.S. records and other interesting moths from Texas André Blanchard, Edward C. Knudson. 1985. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 39(1): 1-8.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 August, 2013 - 12:39am
Last updated 4 August, 2013 - 11:30am

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