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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Agrotina » Protogygia » Protogygia polingi - Hodges#10896 (Protogygia polingi)

Species Protogygia polingi - Hodges#10896

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Protogygia cf. polingi - Protogygia polingi

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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 polingi (Protogygia polingi - Hodges#10896)

Hodges Number

10896

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Protogygia polingi (Barnes & Benjamin, 1922)

Rhizagrotis polingi Barnes & Benjamin, 1922

Phylogenetic sequence # 933302 (1)

Explanation of Names

Named in honor of ornithologist and entomologist Otho C. Poling (1879-1929) of Quincy, Illinois. Poling collected throughout the mountains and deserts of the American southwest, including California, southern Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas and Utah in two distinct periods (1900-1906 and 1922-1929). Many of his specimens were described by William Barnes and he had fourteen species of moths named for him. (2)

Identification

Specimen determined by DNA analysis (BOLD). (3)

Range

California, Nevada, Arizona and Baja California.

Paratypes ♂ & ♀ from Dixieland, Imperial County, California (March 1922).

Print References

Barnes & Benjamin, 1922. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidopterea of North America, 5, p. 41.

Lafontaine, J.D., 2004. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 27.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, p. 195; pl. I, figs. 34-36. (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

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.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

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

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 11 April, 2014 - 8:34pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 19 December, 2017 - 7:56am

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