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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Phaegopterina » Pygarctia » Pygarctia flavidorsalis - Hodges#8253.1 (Pygarctia flavidorsalis)

Species Pygarctia flavidorsalis - Hodges#8253.1

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

Hodges#8253.1 (Pygarctia flavidorsalis) ? - Pygarctia flavidorsalis

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Pygarctia flavidorsalis? - Pygarctia flavidorsalis

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Phaegopterina

Genus Pygarctia

Species flavidorsalis (Pygarctia flavidorsalis - Hodges#8253.1)

Hodges Number

8253.1

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pygarctia flavidorsalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1913

* phylogenetic sequence #930428

Synonym: Pareuchaetes flavidorsalis?

Numbers

Nine Pygarctia species occur in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan: ♂ 30 mm, ♀ 32 mm. (2)

Identification

Adult - wings and thorax white; head, abdomen, and femora orange; tarsi black; antennae black, pectinate.

Range

Arizona and Texas.

Type locality: San Benito, Texas.

Remarks

I have found the head, abdomen and femora to be yellow. A. Hendrickson

See Also

Euchaetes elegans has white-to-pale-grayish antennae vice black in P. flavidorsalis

P. roseicapitis has a red head vice orange in P. flavidorsalis

Print References

Barnes, Wm & J.H. McDunnough 1913. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America 2: 103 (2)

Lafontaine, J.D. & B.C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p.21 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

pinned adult image (Bruce Walsh, Moths of Southeastern Arizona)

Butterflies and Moths of North America--range map only

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.	Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North America (Vols. 1-4) William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough. 1911. Decatur ILL., The Review Press.

Contributed by Cotinis on 19 December, 2006 - 10:16am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, A. Hendrickson
Last updated 3 March, 2021 - 2:08pm

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