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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Condicinae » Condicini » Condica » Mobile Groundling - Hodges#9693 (Condica mobilis)

Species Condica mobilis - Mobile Groundling - Hodges#9693

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

Mobile Groundling - Hodges #9693 - Condica mobilis

Mobile Groundling Moth - Hodges #9693 - Condica mobilis

Mobile Groundling - Hodges#9693 - Dorsal - Condica mobilis

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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 Condicinae

Tribe Condicini

Genus Condica

Species mobilis (Mobile Groundling - Hodges#9693)

Hodges Number

9693

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Condica mobilis (Walker, [1857])

Orig. Comb: Perigea mobilis Walker, [1857] 1856

Syn: Platysenta mobilis (Walker)

* Phylogenetic sequence #931992.

Numbers

Twenty-seven Condica species are found in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Wingspan 27-34 mm.(2)

Identification

Adult: forewing orangish to reddish-brown with dull brownish lines and mottling; bottom of reniform spot white; AM line scalloped; subterminal line jagged, irregular; hindwing whitish with grayish-brown border.

[adapted from description by Charles Covell (2)]

Range

Arizona to Florida and north to New Jersey in the east.

West Indies and Mexico to South America. - Robert W. Poole

Bug Guide - range map with monthly record of photos submitted to the guide.

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Season

Flies all year in southern Florida and like many abundant tropical species, this moth disperses northward during the summer. - Robert W. Poole

Food

Larvae feed on beggarticks (Bidens spp.) including Spanish Needles (B. bipinnata) and Bearded Beggarticks (B. aristosa).

Life Cycle

Larva. Pupa

Remarks

One of the most abundant noctuids in the New World tropical and subtropical regions. - Robert W. Poole

See Also

Other species of Condica either lack reddish-orange forewing color or lack white reniform spot.

Compare pinned photos of other species at Moth Photographers Group

also see a pictorial key to tropical Condica species by Pierre Zagatti)

Perigea xanthioides

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. 65.(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com) - description, range and pinned adult.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - collection map and photos of pinned adults.

Moth Photographers Group - pinned adult and related species for comparison.

pinned adult image plus synonyms, foodplants, flight season, distribution, photo of male genitalia, similar species (Pierre Zagatti, Catalogue of Lepidoptera of French Antilles)

pinned adult image (Bruce Walsh, Moths of Southeastern Arizona)

pinned adult image by John Glaser, plus flight season and foodplant (Larry Line, Maryland)

pinned adult image (Matthew Barnes, Moths of the Grenadines)

presence in Florida; list (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)

(1, 2) on Bidens spp. (John Hilty, Illinois)

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

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 18 May, 2007 - 7:39pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman
Last updated 13 October, 2015 - 6:49pm

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