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Species Polia imbrifera - Cloudy Arches - Hodges#10276

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Noctuidae: Polia imbrifera? - Polia imbrifera Noctuidae: Polia imbrifera? - Polia imbrifera Noctuidae, lateral - Polia imbrifera Polia imbrifera - Polia imbrifera Polia imbrifera Noctuidae, Cloudy Arches - Polia imbrifera Brocade? - Polia imbrifera Cloudy Arches - Polia imbrifera
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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 Hadenini
Genus Polia
Species imbrifera (Cloudy Arches - Hodges#10276)

Hodges Number

10276

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Polia imbrifera (Guenée, 1852) (1)
Eurois imbrifera (Guenée, 1852)
Aplecta imbrifera Guenée, 1852
Phylogenetic sequence # 932868

Numbers

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

Size

Forewing length length 20-23 mm. (3)
Hampson (1905) reported a wingspan of 54 mm.

Identification

Range

British Columbia eastward across Canada, and widespread in the eastern United States. (4), (5)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

The adults are most common from June to August. (4)

Food

Poole (1989) listed the following larval host plants. (6)
Prunus virginiana (chokecherry)
Salix spp. (willow)
Betula spp. (birch)
Alnus rugosa (gray alder)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group. (4)

Print References

Guenée, 1852. Noctuidae 2: 76, 768.
Hampson, G.F. 1857. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of British Museum. London. 11: 555.
Hampson, G.F. 1905. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. London. Supplement 5: 68.

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (3)
Moth Photographers Group (4)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
Lynn Scott's Lepidoptera Images

Works Cited

1.A reclassification of the Polia complex for North America (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).
Timothy L. McCabe. 1980. New York States Museum, 432: 1-141.
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.Pacific Northwest Moths
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.Assessment of species diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone
McAlpine D.F., Smith I.M. (eds.). 2010. Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press). 785 pp.
6.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Cotinis on 4 November, 2006 - 7:18am
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Maury Heiman
Last updated 20 February, 2021 - 11:25am

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