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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Orthosiini » Morrisonia » Fluid Arches - Hodges#10291 (Morrisonia latex)

Species Morrisonia latex - Fluid Arches - Hodges#10291

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited

Caterpillar feeding on elm - Morrisonia latex

Fluid Arches - Hodges#10291 - Morrisonia latex

Fall Armyworm caterpillar? - Morrisonia latex

Pennsylvania Caterpillar - Morrisonia latex

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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Orthosiini

Genus Morrisonia

Species latex (Fluid Arches - Hodges#10291)

Hodges Number

10291

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Morrisonia latex (Guenée, 1852)

Polia latex Guenée, 1852

Phylogenetic sequence # 932805 (1)

(1)

Size

wingspan about 39 mm

Identification

forewing gray with dark patches along costa on either side of orbicular spot, black anal dash, and double black dash along outer margin below reniform spot; orbicular spot large, pale whitish, oblong, and extending obliquely to costa; reniform spot large, kidney-shaped, yellowish with and a dark central arc and blackish shading on lower (inner) side

hindwing dirty grayish-yellow with darker veins and black-dashed terminal line

Range

Nova Scotia to South Carolina, west to Arkansas, north to Manitoba

Season

adults fly from May to July

Food

larvae feed on leaves of a variety of deciduous trees: alder, beech, birch, black cherry, elm, hop-hornbeam, maple, oak, willow

Life Cycle

Larva; adult

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

pinned adult image (CBIF)

adult images (Larry Line, Maryland)

pinned adult image and synonym (Furman U., South Carolina)

live larva image (insectimages.org)

occurrence in Arkansas and Indiana; list (NatureServe Explorer)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 13 September, 2005 - 4:16pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor
Last updated 21 January, 2024 - 2:55pm

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