Genus Amolita

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Remarks

Oblique Grass Moth - Hodges #9819 - Amolita obliqua - male

Feeble Grass Moth - Amolita fessa - male

Amolita fessa - Feeble Grass Moth - Amolita fessa

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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 Omopterini

Genus Amolita

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Amolita Grote, 1874

Numbers

at least 5 species in North America

1 species in Canada [A. fessa] (CBIF)

Range

eastern North America and southwestern US

Remarks

Placement of this genus in a particular subfamily is unsettled. Amolita is placed in 5 subfamilies at various sites on the Internet:

1. Furman University and several other sites place it in Amphipyrinae (outdated?).

2. CBIF places it in Hadeninae (the classification followed here).

3. Butterflies & Moths of the World places it in Acronictinae.

4. FUNET places it in Ipimorphinae.

5. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index places it in Ufeinae.

And ITIS doesn't place it anywhere; Amolita is not listed in their database.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 14 May, 2005 - 9:28pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich
Last updated 25 June, 2015 - 9:43am

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