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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Orthosiini » Morrisonia » Bicolored Woodgrain - Hodges#10520 (Morrisonia evicta)

Species Morrisonia evicta - Bicolored Woodgrain - Hodges#10520

Classification · Hodges Number · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Noctuidae: Morrisonia evicta - Morrisonia evicta

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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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Orthosiini

Genus Morrisonia

Species evicta (Bicolored Woodgrain - Hodges#10520)

Hodges Number

10520

Size

30-37mm wingspan (1)

Identification

Costal half of forewing gray, remainder brown to black. Orbicular and reniform spots merged and colored white with some brown. Outer margin has a white dash above anal angle. Hindwing is grayish-brown. (1)

Range

Nova Scotia to Virginia, west to Texas and Manitoba. (1)

Season

April-May. (1)

Food

Larva have been raised on wild cherry. (1) Blueberry, cherry, chokeberry, dogwood, hazel, hophornbeam, waterleaf, mountain laurel, spirea, viburnum, and probably many other plants. (2)

See Also

Gray Half-Spot (Nedra ramosula) (1)

Print References

Covell, p. 108, plate 22 #12 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

Butterflies and Moths of North America

CBIF

Works Cited

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

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

Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 7 May, 2005 - 11:08am
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, Robin McLeod, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, marcie oconnor
Last updated 10 May, 2022 - 12:24am

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