Protorthodes perforata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Protorthodes
- Species
- Protorthodes perforata
- Scientific Name
- Protorthodes perforata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Protorthodes perforata
Protorthodes perforata is a moth in the family Noctuidae first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1883. It is found across the southern United States, from western Texas to southern California and southward to central Mexico.
The length of the forewings is 12–14 mm. The forewings exhibit a pale, whitish gray to buffy gray coloration, adorned with darker gray reniform and orbicular spots, each distinguished by their outline accentuated by a contrasting pale line. The hindwings are dirty white with fuscous shading on the margins and veins in both sexes. Adults have been recorded on wing from early April to early July and again from mid-August to late October.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Protorthodes akalus
- Protorthodes alfkenii
- Protorthodes antennata
- Protorthodes argentoppida
- Protorthodes curtica
- Protorthodes eureka
- Protorthodes incincta
- Protorthodes melanopis
- Protorthodes mexicana
- Protorthodes mulina
- Protorthodes orobia
- Protorthodes oviduca
- Protorthodes perforata
- Protorthodes rufula
- Protorthodes texana
- Protorthodes texicana
- Protorthodes ustulata




