Biology:Pagara
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Short description: Genus of moths
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Pagara Walker, 1856 |
| Species: | P. simplex
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| Pagara simplex Walker, 1856
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Pagara is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae. Its only species, Pagara simplex, the mouse-colored lichen moth, is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana , Iowa, Kansas , Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee . Both the genus and species were described by Francis Walker in 1856.[1]
The wingspan is about 23 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing year round in the southern part of the range.[2]
Former species
- Pagara fuscipes (Grote, 1883)
References
- ↑ Savela, Markku. "Pagara simplex Walker, 1856". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/pagara/#simplex. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
- ↑ "930396.00 – 8099 – Pagara simplex – Mouse-colored Lichen Moth – Walker, 1856". Mississippi State University. http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=8099. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
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