Phytometra ernestinana

Species of moth

Phytometra ernestinana

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Erebidae
Genus:  | Phytometra
Species:  |

P. ernestinana

Binomial name
Phytometra ernestinana

(Blanchard, 1840)

Synonyms

* Nanthilda ernestinana Blanchard, 1940
* Xanthoptera coccinifascia Grote, 1873

Phytometra ernestinana, Ernestine's moth, is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. It is also present in Cuba.

The wingspan is about 18 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing year round in Florida.[1]

## References

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Taxon identifiers

Phytometra ernestinana|

* Wikidata: Q13519646
* BAMONA: Phytometra-ernestinana
* BOLD: 90024
* BugGuide: 68816
* CoL: 4HMG4
* EoL: 558618
* GBIF: 1760257
* iNaturalist: 228110
* Insecta.pro: 70967
* IRMNG: 10317547
* ITIS: 939865
* LepIndex: 287637
* MONA: 8480
* NatureServe: 2.113410
* NCBI: 1485859

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