Properigea costa, the barrens moth, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae.[1][2] It was first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1923 and it is found in North America.[1]
| Properigea costa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Properigea |
| Species: | P. costa
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| Binomial name | |
| Properigea costa | |
References
edit- ^ a b "Properigea costa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
- ^ "Properigea costa Species Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
- ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Properigea costa". Retrieved 2018-05-03.
Further reading
edit- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 127–47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
- 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.