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Common Name:
Purple Arches

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass:
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder:
Infraorder:
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Noctuinae
Tribe: Hadenini
Species:
Polia purpurissata

Hodges No: 10280

Location:
Monhegan Island
Monhegan, ME
USA
GPS: 43.763051,-69.320026

Date: 8/22/04

Stage: Adult
Sex:
Notes:

Image at BugGuide: http://bugguide.net/node/view/79116

Polia purpurissata Noctuidae
Purple Arches
Identifications represent best guesses on my part and are not intended to be authoritative.
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