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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) » Eriopygini » Lacinipolia » Lacinipolia erecta - Hodges#10403 (Lacinipolia erecta)

Species Lacinipolia erecta - Hodges#10403

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

Lacinipolia erecta for Alabama - Lacinipolia erecta

Moth to black light - Lacinipolia erecta

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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 Eriopygini

Genus Lacinipolia

Species erecta (Lacinipolia erecta - Hodges#10403)

Hodges Number

10403

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lacinipolia erecta (Walker, [1857])

Celaena erecta Walker, 1857

syn.

Perigea constipata Walker, 1857

Perigrapha innexa Grote, 1874

Phylogenetic sequence # 933050.

Numbers

Lacinipolia includes 64 species in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan approximately 30 mm.

Identification

Range

Arizona; Texas to Florida and South Carolina. (2)

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

Holotype labeled "East Florida". (3)

Season

Adults have at least two flights starting February to May and again September through November.

Food

Larval host plant is Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion). (3)

See Also

Moth Photographers Group - pinned Lacinipolia erecta and related species for comparison.

in Arizona only (Selman & Leuschner, 2001) - Lacinipolia triplehorni

Internet References

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

Clemson University - pinned adults.

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

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 Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

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

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 21 February, 2008 - 10:25am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 22 October, 2018 - 1:43pm

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