''Pygarctia'' is a
genus of
moths
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...
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Species
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Pygarctia abdominalis''
Grote, 1871 – yellow-edged pygarctia moth
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Pygarctia angelus''
(Dyar, 1907)
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Pygarctia eglenensis''
(Clemens, 1861)
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Pygarctia flavidorsalis''
Barnes & McDunnough, 1913
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Pygarctia haematodes''
Dyar, 1921
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Pygarctia lorula
''Pygarctia lorula'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr.
Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. (February 14, 1866 – January 21, 1929) was an American entomologist. Dyar's Law, a pattern of geometric progression in ...
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Dyar, 1914
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Pygarctia matudai''
(Beutelspacher, 1978)
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Pygarctia murina
''Pygarctia murina'', the mouse-colored euchaetias, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Richard Harper Stretch in 1885. It is found in the United States in south-western Utah, from southern Colorado to south-eastern California a ...
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(Stretch, 1885)
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Pygarctia neomexicana''
Barnes, 1904
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Pygarctia pterygostigma''
Dyar, 1909
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Pygarctia roseicapitis''
(Neumoegen & Dyar, 1893)
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Pygarctia spraguei''
(Grote, 1875) – Sprague's pygarctia moth
References
Arctiidae genus listat ''Butterflies and Moths of the World'' of the Natural History Museum
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Phaegopterina
Moth genera
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