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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Melipotini » Drasteria » Figure-seven Moth - Hodges#8641 (Drasteria grandirena)

Species Drasteria grandirena - Figure-seven Moth - Hodges#8641

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Melipotini
Genus Drasteria
Species grandirena (Figure-seven Moth - Hodges#8641)
Hodges Number
8641
Other Common Names
Great Kidney Moth
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Drasteria grandirena (Haworth, 1809)
Phytometra grandirena Haworth, 1809
Aedia limbolaris Geyer, 1832
Synedoida grandirena(1)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930915 (2)
Size
wingspan about 35 mm
Range
Ontario to Nova Scotia and south to at least Georgia west to at least Arkansas
Season
adults fly March to August
Food
larvae feed on Hamamelis virginiana (American witchhazel)
usda.gov - plant information
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)
Works Cited
1.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
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.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 6 September, 2007 - 10:43pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 11 August, 2017 - 11:10pm

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