Panthea gigantea

Panthea gigantea
Panthea gigantea male (top), female (bottom)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Panthea
Species:	P. gigantea
Binomial name
Panthea gigantea (French, 1890)
Synonyms
Platycerura gigantea French, 1890 Diphthera gigantea

Panthea gigantea is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found throughout much of the warmer and drier regions of western North America from south-central British Columbia, south to the state of Durango in Mexico and from the Black Hills of South Dakota, western Nebraska and the Texas Panhandle west to Washington, Oregon and the coast of California.

Panthea gigantea is on average the largest New World species of Panthea with some females having a wingspan in excess of 60 mm.

External links

• Bug Guide
• Revision of the New World Panthea Hübner (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) with descriptions of 5 new species and 2 new subspecies

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