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Species Agaraea semivitrea - Hodges#8256.2

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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 Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Phaegopterina

Genus Agaraea

Species semivitrea (Agaraea semivitrea - Hodges#8256.2)

Hodges Number

8256.2

Numbers

A. semivitrea is the only Agaraea species found in North America.(1)

(see comment by Bob Patterson)

Size

wingspan 26-38 mm.

Identification

Adult: forewing semitransparent, pale gray with dark veins; diffuse black spot near center of wing; hindwing smaller, paler, and without black spot; abdomen bright yellow/orange with black dorsal spots; top of thorax pale gray/whitish with 3 black longitudinal lines (1 dorsal and 2 dorsolateral)

Range

Southern Texas and Mexico to northern South America.

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some collection locations and dates.

Season

adults fly year-round in Costa Rica

Print References

Lafontaine J. D., and B. C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - map with some collection date, living and pinned adults.

Moth Photographers Group - pinned photos by Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon (Texas Lepidopters Survey)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) - collection map and photos of pinned adults.

pinned adult image (Pierre Zagatti, Lepidoptera of the French Antilles)

pinned adult images from Belize and Nicaragua (Matthew Barnes, Moths of Belize and Nicaragua)

83 specimen records from Costa Rica with dates and locations (courtesy U. of Alberta)

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 .

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 8 January, 2008 - 11:56pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ron M.
Last updated 24 December, 2012 - 10:01pm

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