Species Ponometia mcdunnoughi - Ponometia macdunnoughi - Hodges#9116

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Ponometia mcdunnoughi 9116? - Ponometia mcdunnoughi

Ponometia macdunnoughi - Ponometia mcdunnoughi

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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

Species mcdunnoughi (Ponometia macdunnoughi - Hodges#9116)

Hodges Number

9116

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ponometia mcdunnoughi (Barnes & Benjamin, 1923) (1)

Graeperia mcdunnoughi Barnes & Benjamin, 1923

Ponometia macdunnoughi Franclemont & Todd, 1983 [unjustified emendation]

Phylogenetic sequence # 931336 (2)

Size

Poole reports the forewing length of one specimen as 11 mm. (3)

Range

Southern California.

Holotype from Indio, California.

Food

Poole reports the larval host is unknown. (3)

See Also

Ponometia pulchra has two brown patches in the fringe of the forewing.

Print References

Barnes, W. & F.H. Benjamin, 1923. Notes and new species. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America, 5(2): 85.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Robert W. Poole's Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com) (3)

Works Cited

1.	Review of the New World genera of the subfamily Acontiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) J. Donald Lafontaine, Robert W. Poole . 2010. ZooKeys 39: 137–160 .

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.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 January, 2014 - 9:36pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 26 May, 2021 - 1:24pm

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