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Species Melipotis cellaris - Cellar Melipotis - Hodges#8601

8601 – Cellar Melipotis Moth - Melipotis cellaris

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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 Melipotis

Species cellaris (Cellar Melipotis - Hodges#8601)

Hodges Number

8601

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Melipotis cellaris (Guenée, 1852)

Synonyms:

Bolina turbata Walker, [1858](1)

Bolina bisonuata Felder & Rogenhaufer, 1874 (1)

Panula insipida Felder & Rogenhaufer, 1874 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930872

Size

Wingspan 33-35 mm.

Identification

male

female

Range

Heppner (2003) reported the range to include Texas(2); Florida(3); West Indies: Mexico to Brazil. (4)

Moth Photographers Group expands the range to include Louisiana, New Mexico and Kansas.(5)

Holotype from Columbia.(1)

Season

The flight period is year round in Texas.

Heppner (2003) reported March, May to June, August and October from Florida. (4)

Food

Heppner (2003) listed the host as unknown. (4)

David L. Wagner (2011) listed the host as Acacia and presumably related legumes. (6)

Remarks

Variable forewing pattern (2)

Species was described by Achille Guenée (1809-1880), a French lawyer and entomologist.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Moths of Maryland

Works Cited

1.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

2.	Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 2B: Macro-Moths Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2004. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. xiv + 59 pp. 20 plates.

3.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

4.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America David L. Wagner. 2011. Princeton University Press.

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 25 October, 2007 - 12:13pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, A. Hendrickson, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 24 April, 2018 - 8:41pm

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