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Apantesis arizoniensis

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Apantesis arizoniensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Apantesis
Species:
A. arizoniensis
Binomial name
Apantesis arizoniensis
(Stretch, [1874])
Synonyms
  • Notarctia arizoniensis (Stretch, 1874)
  • Arctia arizoniensis Stretch, 1874

Apantesis arizoniensis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Robert Harper Stretch (1837–1926) in 1874. It is found from the southwestern United States to Colombia. In the United States, it has been recorded from California, east to western Texas and north to western Colorado and western Wyoming.

The length of the forewings is 16–22 mm. The hindwings are pale to dark pink. Adults are on wing in early June and late August, probably in two generations per year.

The larvae probably feed on various herbaceous plants.[1]

Taxonomy

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This species was formerly a member of the genus Notarctia, but was moved to Apantesis along with the other species of the genera Grammia, Holarctia, and Notarctia.[2][3] The species was also formerly treated as a synonym of Notarctia proxima.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Pacific Northwest Moths
  2. ^ Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi:10.1111/syen.12194. hdl:10138/176841.
  3. ^ Schmidt, B. Christian; Lafontaine, J. Donald; Troubridge, James T. (2018). "Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico IV". ZooKeys (252): 241–252. doi:10.3897/zookeys.252.28500. PMC 6189224. PMID 30337831.
  4. ^ mothphotographersgroup