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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Lichen Moths (Lithosiini) » Cisthenina » Eudesmia » Arid Eudesmia - Hodges#8096 (Eudesmia arida)

Species Eudesmia arida - Arid Eudesmia - Hodges#8096

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References

Arizona yellow & black Moth - Eudesmia arida

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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 Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Lithosiini (Lichen Moths)

Subtribe Cisthenina

Genus Eudesmia

Species arida (Arid Eudesmia - Hodges#8096)

Hodges Number

8096

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eudesmia arida (Skinner)

Orig. Comb: Ruscino arida Skinner, 1906

* phylogenetic sequence #930174

Explanation of Names

arida: presumably refers to the arid climate within the range of this species, and is the origin of the suggested common name above (its "sister species" in North America [E. menea] occurs in extreme southern Texas where the climate is not so arid)

Numbers

one of 2 species in this genus in North America listed at All-Leps

Size

wingspan 23-30 mm, based on two Internet images

Identification

Adult: forewing dark gray to blackish with broad transverse yellow band in median area, and narrow yellow band in subterminal area; subterminal band does not extend to costa or inner margin; hindwing blackish distally, yellow basally; body yellowish to light brownish

Range

AZ to w. TX / Mex - Map (MPG)

Season

June to Oct - MPG

Food

larvae feed on lichens growing on rocks, walls, or cliffs

See Also

Eudesmia menea forewing has narrow median band (not broad), and subterminal band extends to costa and inner margin

Cisthene species of moths have only one transverse band on the forewing

Print References

Skinner, 1906. Ent. News 17 (3): 95

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - MPG

Butterflies and Moths of North America - BAMONA

live adult image plus location and date (Ron Lyons, Texas)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 19 July, 2007 - 5:27pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Randy Hardy
Last updated 27 August, 2017 - 10:47am

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