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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Noctuoidea » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bagisarinae » Cydosiini » Cydosia » Gold-banded Cydosia - Hodges#8999 (Cydosia aurivitta)

Species Cydosia aurivitta - Gold-banded Cydosia - Hodges#8999

Classification · Hodges Number · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Bagisarinae
Tribe Cydosiini
Genus Cydosia
Species aurivitta (Gold-banded Cydosia - Hodges#8999)
Hodges Number
8999
Explanation of Names
aurivitta is Latin for golden banded (1)
Numbers
Cydosia nobilitella also reaches the U.S. in Florida (2)
Size
22 mm wingspan
Identification
Extremely sexually dimorphic forewing pattern. Rare, totally blue-black examples exist. (3)
Range
Fairly common in southwest Texas, occasional in east Texas. (3)
See Also
9000 – Cydosia nobilitella - Moth Photographers Group
Cydosia nobilitella (Cramer, 1779) - Le Catalogue des Lépidoptères des Antilles Françaises
Cydosia nobilitella - Moths of the Grenadines
Yponomeutidae (Ermine Moths), Atteva punctella (Ailanthus Webworm Moth)
Internet References
8999 – Cydosia aurivitta – Grote & Robinson, 1868 - Moth Photographers Group
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
By Donald J. Borror
2.The Lepidoptera of Florida: An Annotated Checklist.
By Charles P. Kimball.
3.Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 2B: Macro-Moths
By Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2004.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 2 August, 2008 - 5:27pm
Last updated 3 June, 2009 - 4:10am

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