Species Plagiomimicus pyralina - Hodges#9752.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 Stiriinae

Tribe Stiriini

Genus Plagiomimicus

Species pyralina (Plagiomimicus pyralina - Hodges#9752.1)

Hodges Number

9752.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Plagiomimicus pyralina (Schaus, 1904)

Tarache pyralina Schaus, 1904

Phylogenetic sequence # 931663.1

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 18 species of the genus Plagiomimicus in America north of Mexico. (1)

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2011) added Plagiomimicus pyralina to the checklist. (2)

Size

Schaus (1904) reported the wingspan as 30 mm.

Print References

Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt, 2011. Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 149: 148, 153. (2)

Schaus, W., 1904. New species of American Heterocera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 30: 159.

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.	Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico J. Donald Lafontaine & B. Christian Schmidt. 2011. Zookeys, 149.1805.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 9 September, 2013 - 12:25am
Last updated 9 September, 2013 - 8:40am

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