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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Acronictinae » Dagger Moths (Acronicta) » Acronicta tota - Hodges#9210 (Acronicta tota)
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Acronicta tota (Grote) - Acronicta tota
Copyright © 2011 Mike Quinn

Acronicta tota (Grote) - Acronicta tota
Westcave Preserve, Round Mountain, Travis County, Texas, USA
April 4, 2011
best guess...

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Acronicta tota (Grote) - Acronicta tota Acronicta tota (Grote) - Acronicta tota
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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 6 April, 2011 - 11:35am
Last updated 12 May, 2023 - 11:28pm

Did you find someone who knew the species?
Should we move the rest of the images to this species?
… john and jane balaban, 21 December, 2018 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Agrees with MONA fascicle
Present cat is a good match to Schmidt & Anweiler's illustration (MONA fasc. 25.4, pl. L-7, fig. 4; 2020). There illustration is by Delmar Cain, from an ex ova record in Kendall Co., TX, raised on Western Soapberry.
… Chuck Sexton, 15 March, 2022 - 4:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Owlet Moths and kin.
… Mike Quinn, 21 December, 2018 - 2:14pm login or register to post comments

Mike, we mapped the locations
of all the images of this beauty on BugGuide and iNaturalist and it seems to be almost a central Texas endemic. We were thinking it would be Agaristinae, but we think we now know what all those look like. We turned our attention to Acronicta next and found an essentially central Texas endemic in Acronicta tota, where all the images are adults, no cats. Our thinking (hoping) now is that these are the cats of Acronicta tota. We asked a couple of folks but, though people know of the cat, they don't what species. Do you have anyone down there who might know what the caterpillar of Acronicta tota might look like?
… john and jane balaban, 18 December, 2018 - 4:14pm login or register to post comments

Just linking these all together
so we have them in one place in case that helps with an ID.

Best guess is still a young Androloma disparata but can't pin that down :(
… john and jane balaban, 17 April, 2015 - 8:35am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… Charley Eiseman, 7 February, 2014 - 9:35am login or register to post comments

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