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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Agaristinae » Alypiodes » Alypiodes geronimo - Hodges#9313 (Alypiodes geronimo)

Species Alypiodes geronimo - Hodges#9313

Classification · Hodges Number · Identification · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
black moth or butterfly with white and blue markings - Alypiodes geronimo - female Geronimo Forester? - Alypiodes geronimo - female Male, Alypiodes geronimo? - Alypiodes geronimo - male Alypiodes geronimo - male Alypiodes geronimo - female Alypiodes geronimo - female Alypiodes geronimo Alypiodes geronimo - male
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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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Agaristinae
Genus Alypiodes
Species geronimo (Alypiodes geronimo - Hodges#9313)
Hodges Number
9313
Identification
Charles Melton (News of the Lepidopterists' Society Vol 60 #2) has raised caterpillars of both species and discovered that most online resources have the larvae confused.
A. bimaculata feeds on mirabilis
and A. geronimo feeds on Boerhavia
Food
Larval hosts are Boerhavia spp. (Nyctaginaceae). (1) BugGuide record on erect spiderling (Boerhavia erecta).
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
The Moths of Southeastern Arizona
Nearctica
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 20 August, 2008 - 4:23pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson, Chris Grinter
Last updated 13 June, 2018 - 3:28pm

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