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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Rivulinae » Rivula » Spotted Grass Moth - Hodges#8404 (Rivula propinqualis)

Species Rivula propinqualis - Spotted Grass Moth - Hodges#8404

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Spotted Grass Moth - Rivula propinqualis

Rivula propinqualis? - Rivula propinqualis

Rivula propinqualis - Spotted Grass Moth - Hodges#8404 - Rivula propinqualis

Pond Drive leaf feeder on Carex species D3248 adult 2021 2 - Rivula propinqualis

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Rivulinae

Genus Rivula

Species propinqualis (Spotted Grass Moth - Hodges#8404)

Hodges Number

8404

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rivula propinqualis Guenée, 1854

Numbers

Three (3) species of Rivula occur in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Wingspan 15-19mm (2)

Identification

Light yellow forewing with large oval brown spot covering two small purple reniform spots. Parallel brown lines with some brown shading toward outer margin. Yellow hindwing. (2)

Range

Throughout eastern US and across Canada to British Columbia and Oregon

Season

April-September (2)

Food

Grasses (2),Carex stipata (T.Feldman)

Remarks

Covell notes that this species is uncommon. (2)

Print References

Lafontaine J. D., and B. C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 25.(1)

Covell, p. 321 & plate 39#21 (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group(3)

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System(4)

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.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, cotinis, Maury Heiman, Ted Kropiewnicki, JoAnneRusso
Last updated 19 February, 2022 - 9:03am

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