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Species Eutelia pulcherrimus - Beautiful Eutelia - Hodges#8968

Beautiful Eutelia - Eutelia pulcherrimus

Eutelia pulcherrimus - Eutelia pulcherrimus

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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 Euteliidae

Subfamily Euteliinae

Genus Eutelia

Species pulcherrimus (Beautiful Eutelia - Hodges#8968)

Hodges Number

8968

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eutelia pulcherrimus (Grote, 1865)

Ripogenus pulcherrimus Grote, 1865 (1)

Explanation of Names

Latin for "prettiest, most beautiful"

Numbers

Uncommon (2)

Size

Wingspan 23-36mm (2)

Range

MA to FL, west to MO and TX (2)

Season

Flies April to July (2)

Food

Poison sumac (2), poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) Illinois Wildflowers

Remarks

A similar species, furcata, is restricted to Florida. (2)

Print References

Covell, p.154, plate 30 (#5) (2)

Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys 40: p. 41. (1)

Hodges, R.W. et al. (editors) 1983. Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico. E. W. Classey, London, UK.(3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page with photos of living and pinned adults.

pinned adult photo at Georgia Lepidoptera

Adult photos from Larry Line at Maryland Moths

Adult photo and natural history info from Bill Hathaway's PittPaths

Works Cited

1.	Descriptions of North American Lepidoptera, No. 6 Grote, A.R. 1863. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia., 4: 315-330.

2.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

3.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 5 January, 2005 - 10:55pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Maury Heiman
Last updated 23 April, 2020 - 3:53am

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