Phryganidia californica Packard, 1864, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 17 June 2013
Hundreds swarming around trees.
#145 Eyed Paectes Moth
Noctuoidea is the superfamily of noctuid (Latin "night owl") or "owlet" moths, and has the largest number of species described for any Lepidopteran superfamily. Its classification has not yet reached a satisfactory or stable state. See Kitching and Rawlins (1999) for a broad review, and this reference is the source of the classification used here. The most recent classifications include only four families in the superfamily; Noctuidae, Oenosandridae, Doidae, and Notodontidae. The remaining four families listed...
