Peridea ferruginea
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Genus: | Peridea |
| Species: | P. ferruginea
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| Binomial name | |
| Peridea ferruginea (Packard, 1864)
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Peridea ferruginea, the chocolate prominent, is a species of prominent moth in the family Notodontidae.[1][2] It was described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1864 and is found in North America.[2] In 2018, Miller et al. distinguished Peridea bordeloni, whose larvae specialize on river birch Betula nigra, as a separate species, though P. bordeloni has previously been identified as P. ferruginea.[3]
The MONA or Hodges number for Peridea ferruginea is 7921.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Peridea ferruginea Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ^ a b "Peridea ferruginea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org.
- ^ Pohl, G.R.; Patterson, B. & Pelham, J.P. (2016). Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
- ^ "Peridea ferruginea, Chocolate Prominent - Hodges 7921". North American Moth Photographers Group. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- Lafontaine, J. Donald & Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys. 40: 1–239.
External links
[edit]- Citizen science observations for Peridea ferruginea at iNaturalist
Media related to Peridea ferruginea at Wikimedia Commons
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