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Genus Ponometia

Small Bird Dropping Moth - Ponometia erastrioides

Ponometia candefacta? - Ponometia candefacta

bird-dropping moth - Ponometia erastrioides

Arizona Bird Dropping Moth - Ponometia elegantula

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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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)

Tribe Acontiini

Genus Ponometia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ponometia Herrich-Schäffer, 1868

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 34 species of the genus Ponometia in America north of Mexico. (1)

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 .

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 18 October, 2006 - 7:44pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 13 January, 2014 - 9:45pm

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