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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cobubathinae » Tripudia » Tripudia quadrifera - Hodges#9003 (Tripudia quadrifera)

Species Tripudia quadrifera - Hodges#9003

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Remarks · 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 Cobubathinae
Genus Tripudia
Species quadrifera (Tripudia quadrifera - Hodges#9003)
Hodges Number
9003
Other Common Names
Harp-winged Tripudia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tripudia quadrifera (Zeller, 1874)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed fifteen species of the genus Tripudia in America north of Mexico. (1)
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2013) added one species. (2)
Size
Wingspan is 12-15 mm.
Range
Texas. (3)
Also Central America, Lesser Antilles.
Remarks
"Tripudia quadrifera was shown to be a species complex by Pogue (2009) with T. quadrifera confined in United States to Texas, T. rectangula occupying most the remainder of the North American range, and two additional species, T. grapholithoides (Möschler) and T. lamina Pogue occurring in Florida with T. rectangula."(3)

(from Moth Photgraphers Group)
Print References
Pogue, M.G., 2009. A review of the Tripudia quadrifera (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) species complex. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 111:68-97.(3)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (4)
Moths of the Grenadines
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 check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico.
J. Donald Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt . 2013. ZooKeys 264: 227-236.
3.A review of the Tripudia quadrifera (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) species complex.
Michael G. Pogue. 2009. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 111: 68-97.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 14 December, 2006 - 5:56pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Maury Heiman, Ethan Kistler, Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 17 December, 2013 - 9:21am

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