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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Grotellinae » Grotella » Grotella tricolor - Hodges#11222 (Grotella tricolor)

Species Grotella tricolor - Hodges#11222

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

White moth with brown & black markings - Grotella tricolor

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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 Grotellinae

Genus Grotella

Species tricolor (Grotella tricolor - Hodges#11222)

Hodges Number

11222

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Grotella tricolor Barnes, 1904

* phylogenetic sequence #931709

Size

Wingspan 20-23 mm (Barnes, 1904).

Identification

Adult: forewing white to pale yellow with median line of black spots; PM line double, inner line composed of black spots, outer line of reddish-brown spots; subterminal line composed of large oblong black spots; terminal line composed of smaller and rounder black spots; hindwing dark gray with white fringe.

Range

Southern California, central and southern Arizona, west Texas (Nearctica.com).

Season

Adults fly in August and September.

Food

Unknown The related species, Grotella margueritaria, feeds on the blossom buds of Big Bend ringstem (Anulocaulis eriosolenus) and southwestern ringstem (Anulocaulis leiosolenus) (Kendall, 1976).

See Also

Grotella margueritaria - compare at Nearctica.com.

Print References

Barnes, W. 1904. New species of North American lepidoptera. Canadian Entomologist 36(8): 240

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Nearctica - species page

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

presence in California; list 1 specimen with date and location (U. of California at Berkeley)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 22 August, 2007 - 3:38pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 21 March, 2013 - 1:04pm

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