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Genus Metria

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Metria amella Caterpillar ID please - Metria amella Live Oak Metria? - Metria amella Metria amella - Live Oak Metria Moth - Metria amella Protodeltote ?? - Metria amella unknown moth - Metria amella Moth - Metria amella Metria bilineata
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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 Erebinae
Tribe Omopterini
Genus Metria

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Metria Hübner, [1823]
Campometra Guenée, 1852
Placonia Möschler, 1880
Rhubuna Walker, 1858
Safia Guenée, 1852
Yrias Guenée, 1852

Numbers

Three spp. north of Mexico.(1), large Neotropical genus
Metria amella - widespread south-eastern USA
Metria bilineata - southern Texas and southern Florida
Metria celia - Florida, the Caribbean, central and south America

Range

se US to S. Amer.

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. 37.(1)

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 .
Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 8 July, 2007 - 12:25pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 29 June, 2021 - 6:25pm

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