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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Melipotini » Melipotis » Royal Poinciana Moth  - Hodges#8610 (Melipotis acontioides)

Species Melipotis acontioides - Royal Poinciana Moth - Hodges#8610

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited
Melipotis acontioides Moth ID request - Melipotis acontioides Moth - Melipotis acontioides Moth on a cactus - Melipotis acontioides Found a moth spreading its wings on a flower of Palo Verde tree late at night - Melipotis acontioides July Nevada Moth - Melipotis acontioides Unknown Moth - Melipotis acontioides Royal Poinciana Moth - Melipotis acontioides
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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 acontioides (Royal Poinciana Moth - Hodges#8610)
Hodges Number
8610
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Melipotis acontioides (Guenée, 1852)
Bolina acontioides Guenée, 1852
Melipotis sinualis Harvey, 1877
Melipotis producta Hayes, 1975
* phylogenetic sequence #930881
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed thirteen species of the genus Melipotis in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
Wingspan about 43 mm.
Range
s. CA to FL / W. Indies - Map (2)(3)(4)
Food
Larval host in Arizona is blue palo verde (Parkisonia florida) (Moths of Southeastern Arizona) and Jerusalem thorn (Parkinsonia aculeata) in Texas.
Life Cycle
Larvae feed at night and pupate in loose cocoons in leaf litter (Sonoran Desert Naturalist).
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - MPG (4)
BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (5)
Moths of Southestern Arizona (3)
Sonoran Desert Naturalist - life history
Works Cited
1.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 .
2.Moths of Dallas County, Texas
3.Moths of Southeast Arizona
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 19 December, 2007 - 8:33pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 3 November, 2022 - 5:26pm

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