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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Scoliopteryginae » Anomini » Anomis » Yellow Scallop Moth - Hodges#8545 (Anomis erosa)

Species Anomis erosa - Yellow Scallop Moth - Hodges#8545

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Erebidae

Subfamily Scoliopteryginae

Tribe Anomini

Genus Anomis

Species erosa (Yellow Scallop Moth - Hodges#8545)

Hodges Number

8545

Other Common Names

Abutilon Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anomis erosa (Hübner, 1821)

Phylogenetic Sequence # 930602

Numbers

Nine Anomis species are found in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Forewing length 12-13 mm.(2)

Range

Southern Arizona to the Atlantic coast.

The eastern population has been known to migrate north as far as Quebec.(2)

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with some collection dates.

Season

Most records are from August to October.

Adults fly May to October in western Texas.(2)

Food

Larval host is wild and cultivated cotton, hibiscus, hollyhock, okra, rose-mallow, velvet leaf, and other Malvaceae species.

Remarks

Dalton State College cautions that A. erosa cannot be positively distinguished from A. flava without dissecting the genitalia.

See Also

Tropical Anomis Moth - Anomis flava

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Print References

Lafontaine J. D., and B. C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 26.(1)

Powell, J. A., and P. A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. p. 256, pl. 43.18.(2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - map with some collection dates, photos of living and pinned adults.

Larry Line's Moths of Maryland - photo of pinned adult.

Butterflies and Moth of North America - species page with photos.

Works Cited

1.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

2.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 17 February, 2008 - 9:31pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 24 September, 2020 - 6:28pm

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