Biology:Apantesis f-pallida

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Short description: Species of moth

Apantesis f-pallida
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Apantesis
Species:
A. f-pallida
Binomial name
Apantesis f-pallida
(Strecker, 1878)
Synonyms
  • (Grammia f-pallida) (Strecker, 1878)
  • Arctia f-pallida Strecker, 1878
  • Arctia quadranotata Strecker, 1878
  • Apantesis quadranotata
  • Apantesis sociata Barnes & McDunnough, 1910
  • Apantesis moierra Dyar, 1914

Apantesis f-pallida is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Strecker in 1878. It is found from south-eastern Utah and Colorado south to eastern Arizona, New Mexico and eastern Texas . It has also been recorded from west-central Nevada, and probably also occurs in Mexico.

The length of the forewings is 13.9 mm. The forewings are dark brown to black dorsally with pale buff to ivory bands. The hindwings are pinkish red with black markings. Adults are on wing from late April to early May and again from July to August. There two generations per year in at least parts of the range.[1]

This species was formerly a member of the genus Grammia, but was moved to Apantesis along with the other species of the genera Grammia, Holarctia, and Notarctia.[2][3]

References

  1. Schmidt, B.C. 2009: Taxonomic revision of the genus Grammia Rambur (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Arctiinae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 156: 507-597. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00496.x
  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. 
  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. PMID 30337831. 

Wikidata ☰ Q13528619 entry