Protorthodes eureka

Protorthodes eureka
Male
Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Protorthodes
Species: P. eureka
Binomial name
Protorthodes eureka
(Barnes & Benjamin, 1927)
Synonyms
  • Eriopyga eureka Barnes & Benjamin, 1927

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

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Pacific Northwest Moths


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