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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Orthosiini » Egira » Egira curialis - Hodges#10511 (Egira curialis)

Species Egira curialis - Hodges#10511

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Dolocucullia Dentilinea? - Egira curialis

Supralathosea obtusa ? - Egira curialis - female

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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Orthosiini

Genus Egira

Species curialis (Egira curialis - Hodges#10511)

Hodges Number

10511

Other Common Names

Citrus cutworm

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Egira curialis (Grote)(1), 1873)

Xylomyges curialis Grote, 1873

Synonym Egira candida

Phylogenetic sequence # 932794 (2)

Numbers

Size

Forewing length 14-17 mm. (3)

Identification

Larva - mottled red, gray, and black, with a red and white lateral band. (3)

Range

Western North America, as far east as Colorado and New Mexico. Common in California. (3)

Season

Adults fly January through May. (3), (4)

Food

Larvae feed on a variety of hardwoods, including oak, cherry and hackberry. (3) A pest of citrus (Grafton-Cardwell, Montez & McClain, 2001).

Life Cycle

See Grafton-Cardwell, Montez & McClain (2001) in Print References.

Print References

Grafton-Cardwell, E.E., G.H. Montez & J.E. McClain 2001. Lower Developmental Threshold and Degree-Day Prediction of Larval Emergence of Citrus Cutworm, Egira curialis (Grote) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). J. Agric. Urban Entomol. 18(2): 73–85 (PDF)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (3)

Moth Photographers Group (4)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	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 .

3.	Pacific Northwest Moths

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by John Davis on 6 September, 2007 - 6:04pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 6 April, 2014 - 9:14pm

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