Protorthodes eureka
| Protorthodes eureka | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Protorthodes |
| Species: | P. eureka |
| Binomial name | |
| Protorthodes eureka (Barnes & Benjamin, 1927) | |
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Protorthodes eureka is a moth in the Noctuidae family. It is found from southern Alberta southward in the western Great Plains to Colorado and in the Great Basin to east-central California and south-western Colorado. The habitat consists of open xeric habitats, especially sagebrush prairie and open pinyon-juniper woodlands.
The length of the forewings is 11–13 mm. The forewings are reddish brown with a longitudinally-streaked pattern resulting from dark-colored veins and lighter-brown colour between the veins. There is a series of black sagittate spots on the inner side of the (almost straight) subterminal line. The hindwings are pale whitish grey with a grey marginal band with an indistinct medial margin. The veins are dark. Adults are on wing from early August to late September.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Lafontaine, J.D.; Walsh, J.B.; Ferris, C.D. 2014: A revision of the genus Protorthodes McDunnough with descriptions of a new genus and four new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Eriopygini). ZooKeys, 421: 139-179. doi:10.3897/zookeys.421.6664
- ↑ Pacific Northwest Moths
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