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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Litter Moths (Herminiinae) » Idia » American Idia - Hodges#8322 (Idia americalis)

Species Idia americalis - American Idia - Hodges#8322

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

8322 American Idia - Idia americalis - Idia americalis

2370 Idia americalis - American Idia Moth 8322 - Idia americalis

Erebidae: Idia americalis - Idia americalis

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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 Herminiinae (Litter Moths)

Genus Idia

Species americalis (American Idia - Hodges#8322)

Hodges Number

8322

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Idia americalis (Guenée, 1854)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930469

Numbers

There are 18 named species of Idia in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

20-30 mm wingspan (2)

Identification

Range

throughout North America

Season

adults fly from May to October

Food

larvae feed on lichens (2); dead leaves (Jim Sogaard); fungi (MJ Hatfield); may be a detritivore in ant nests (Pacific Northwest Moths)

Life Cycle

Larva; pupa

See Also

Idia aemula (Common Idia) is similar but lacks the dark marks along the costa

Print References

Covell, p. 322, plate 39 (16) (2)

Powell, J.A., & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America, p. 254, pl. 42.32. (3)

Wagner, p. 42--photo of larva (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Pacific Northwest Moths

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Moth Photographers Group - pinned adult and related species for comparison.

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.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

3.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

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

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 May, 2005 - 1:12am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Lynette Elliott, Tony-2, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor
Last updated 26 April, 2022 - 6:16pm

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