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Opharus muricolor

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Mousey-gray tiger moth
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Opharus
Species:
O. muricolor
Binomial name
Opharus muricolor
(Dyar, 1898)
Synonyms
  • Pygarctia muricolor Dyar, 1898

Opharus muricolor, the mousey-gray tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1898. It is found in the US states of Arizona,[1] New Mexico and Texas.[2]

Adults have been recorded on wing from May to August.

References

  1. ^ Opharus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Moth Photographers Group at Mississippi State University