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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) » Xylenini » Xylenina » Sericaglaea

Genus Sericaglaea

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Variable Sallow - Hodges #9941 (Sericaglaea signata) - Sericaglaea signata

Moth to porch light - Sericaglaea signata

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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 Xylenini

Subtribe Xylenina

Genus Sericaglaea

Numbers

2 species in North America listed at All-Leps

Size

wingspan 35-43 mm (1)

Identification

Adult of S. signata: forewing color varies widely: light to dark brown, sometimes reddish-brown with purplish gloss in fresh specimens; some have heavy black shading inside irregular subterminal line, with conspicuously paler area outside ST line; veins and lines usually paler brown, obscure; sharp bluish-black spot in lower half of reniform spot; hindwing brown, grayish-brown toward outer margin (1)

Range

Connecticut to Florida, west to Missouri and Texas (1)

Season

adults of S. signata fly from October to May

Food

larvae feed on leaves of basswood, cherry, oak

Life Cycle

one generation per year; overwinters as an adult

Remarks

Only 1 species is included in Sericaglaea at Butterflies and Moths of the World. The other species listed at All-Leps (adulta) has no photos or other references on the Internet.

See Also

other species in the tribe Xylenini - see photos by Jim Vargo at MPG in Internet References link below

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - Pinned & live adult images of S. signata

pinned adult image of S. signata and collection site map (All-Leps)

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2005.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 23 April, 2007 - 9:21am
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 27 December, 2011 - 2:00pm

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