| Peridea ferruginea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Genus: | Peridea |
| Species: | P. ferruginea |
| Binomial name | |
| Peridea ferruginea (Packard, 1864) | |
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Peridea ferruginea, the chocolate prominent, is a species of prominent moth in the family Notodontidae. It was described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1864 and is found in North America. In 2018, Miller et al. distinguished Peridea bordeloni, whose larvae specialize on river birch Betula nigra, as a separate species, though P. bordeloni has previously been identified as P. ferruginea.
The MONA or Hodges number for Peridea ferruginea is 7921.
References
- "Peridea ferruginea Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ^ "Peridea ferruginea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org.
- Pohl, G.R.; Patterson, B. & Pelham, J.P. (2016). Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
- "Peridea ferruginea, Chocolate Prominent - Hodges 7921". North American Moth Photographers Group. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- Lafontaine, J. Donald & Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys. 40: 1–239.
External links
- Citizen science observations for Peridea ferruginea at iNaturalist
Media related to Peridea ferruginea at Wikimedia Commons
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Peridea ferruginea | |
| Lophodonta ferruginea | |
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