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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Looper Moths (Plusiinae) » Plusiini » Autoplusiina » Autoplusia » Bean-leaf Skeletonizer Moth - Hodges#8891 (Autoplusia egena)

Species Autoplusia egena - Bean-leaf Skeletonizer Moth - Hodges#8891

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

Another Moth Possibly Same One as Previous Moth - Autoplusia egena

Noctuidae: Autoplusia egena? - Autoplusia egena

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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 Plusiinae (Looper Moths)

Tribe Plusiini

Subtribe Autoplusiina

Genus Autoplusia

Species egena (Bean-leaf Skeletonizer Moth - Hodges#8891)

Hodges Number

8891

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Autoplusia egena (Guenée, 1852)

Plusia egena Guenée, 1852

Phylogenetic sequence #931172

Size

FWL ≈17-20 mm (1)

Identification

Ground light brown, dark reddish-brown with coppery iridescence between AM & PM ● Coppery iridescent patch below PM, both extending to apex ● Orbicular spot, ovate and reniform oblong, faint ● ST black, bidentate ● HW dull fuscous, lighter basally. (1)

Range

Florida, New Mexico, California, possibily Texas and Arizona (unconfirmed), and south to tropics (1)

Habitat

This tropical, non-diapausing species occurrs in North America, where the climate is appropriate for continuing generations. In warm seasons it migrates into the California Central Valley, producing several generations before colder weather arrives. (1)

Season

Multivoltine, with adults flying all year (1)

Food

This polyphagous species can find suitable host plants at different times of the year, including hollyhock, celery, carrot, larkspur, soybean, mallows, marigold, spearmint, groundsel and verbena. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – images of pinned adults

Works Cited

1.	Guide to the adult and larval Plusiinae of California (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Thomas D. Eichlin. 1975. California Department of Agriculture Occasional Paper 21: 1-73.

Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 2 October, 2015 - 9:44am
Additional contributions by Nathaniel Green
Last updated 27 June, 2022 - 1:58pm

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