Orthosia pacifica

Orthosia pacifica
Illustration of Orthosia pacifica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Tribe:	Orthosiini
Genus:	Orthosia
Species:	O. pacifica
Binomial name
Orthosia pacifica (Harvey, 1874)
Synonyms[1][2]
Taeniocampa pacifica (Harvey, 1874) Monima pacifica (Hampson, 1905)

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

1. "Orthosia pacifica species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. 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.
3. "Orthosia pacifica Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. "Orthosia pacifica". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
5. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Orthosia pacifica". Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico" (PDF). 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.