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Species Protogygia lagena - Hodges#10892

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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 Noctuini

Subtribe Agrotina

Genus Protogygia

Species lagena (Protogygia lagena - Hodges#10892)

Hodges Number

10892

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Protogygia lagena (Grote, 1875)

Agrotis lagena Grote, 1875

Phylogenetic sequence # 933293 (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 16 species of the genus Protogygia in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Forewing length 17-23 mm. (2)

Range

Holotype from California in BMNH, London.(3)

Print References

Lafontaine, J.D., 2004. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 186; plate I, figs. 7-13. (4)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (2)

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

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.	Pacific Northwest Moths

3.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

4.	The Moths of America North of Mexico, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part), Noctuinae (Part-Agrotini), Fascicle 27.1 J. Donald Lafontaine. 2004. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 3 December, 2013 - 5:02pm
Last updated 8 January, 2014 - 11:46pm

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