Pygarctia murina

Pygarctia murina
	Pygarctia murina. Texas Canyon Rest Area, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Pygarctia
Species:	P. murina
Binomial name
	Pygarctia murina; (Stretch, 1885)
Synonyms
	Euchaetes murina Stretch, 1885; Pygarctia oslari Rothschild, 1910; Pygarctia poliochroa Hampson, 1916; Pygarctia murina albistrigata Barnes & McDunnough, 1913;

Pygarctia murina, the mouse-colored euchaetias, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Richard Harper Stretch in 1885. It is found in the United States in south-western Utah, from southern Colorado to south-eastern California and in southern Texas.

The wingspan is 26–33 mm. Adults are on wing from late July to September.^[2]

Larvae feed on Euphorbia species and have also been reared on Funastrum species. They are purple brown or blue gray with a narrow lemon-yellow subdorsal stripe and a wide yellow stripe below the spiracles. There are black pencil tufts and longer white hairs. The head is dark orange with orange hairs. They reach a length of about 22 mm when fully grown. Pupation takes place in a silken cocoon within surface debris.^[3]

References

^ Savela, Markku. "Pygarctia Grote, 1871". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
^ Moth Photographers Group at Mississippi State University
^ Bug Guide

Arctiidae genus list at Butterflies and Moths of the World of the Natural History Museum

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[1] Savela, Markku. "Pygarctia Grote, 1871". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 18, 2017.

[2] Moth Photographers Group at Mississippi State University

[3] Bug Guide

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