Orthosia pacifica
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| Illustration of Orthosia pacifica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Tribe: | Orthosiini |
| Genus: | Orthosia |
| Species: | O. pacifica
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| Binomial name | |
| Orthosia pacifica (Harvey, 1874)
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Orthosia pacifica is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae.[3][4][1] It is found in western North America.[4][2]
Adults are gray-brown. The fore-wings are light brown with darker brown and black markings. The hind-wings are whitish with darker markings. Larvae are green with white dorsal lines and markings.[2]
The MONA or Hodges number for Orthosia pacifica is 10494.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Orthosia pacifica species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ a b c Hampson, George Francis (1905). Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Vol. 5. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 429–430. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.21047.
- ^ "Orthosia pacifica Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ a b "Orthosia pacifica". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Orthosia pacifica". Retrieved 2019-09-24.
Further reading
[edit]- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 127–47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414. S2CID 85246582.
- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2015). "Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico, III". ZooKeys (527): 227–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.527.6151. PMC 4668890. PMID 26692790.
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.