Species Leucania pseudargyria - False Wainscot

Classification · Explanation of Names · Food

Leucania species? - Leucania pseudargyria

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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 Hadeninae

Tribe Leucaniini

Genus Leucania

Species pseudargyria (False Wainscot)

Explanation of Names

Three possible derivations:

Greek pseudes (πσευδης)- "false, lying" + argyros (αρυρος)- "silver."

There's also a word pseudargyros (πσευδαρυρος) which referred to some silver-like metal- perhaps zinc.

Finally, pseudargyria may refer to it resembling Argyria in the Crambidae.

Food

Various grasses.

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 17 February, 2006 - 7:52pm

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