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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Agaristinae » Gerrodes » Gerrodes minatea - Hodges#9304 (Gerrodes minatea)

Species Gerrodes minatea - Hodges#9304

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Internet References
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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 Agaristinae
Genus Gerrodes
Species minatea (Gerrodes minatea - Hodges#9304)
Hodges Number
9304
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Gerrodes minatea Dyar, 1912; Proc. USNM 42: 72
* phylogenetic sequence #931969
Size
wingspan about 45-53 mm (Based on MPG specimen, specimens in the guide, and Dyar's description)
Identification
Gerra radicalis is similar, but considerably smaller, with dark border of hind wing wider, and on front wing with outer bands above not curving around inner margin of wing.
Range
se. Arizona and perhaps sw. New Mexico south to El Salvador
Food
Grape Vitis species; perhaps other Vitaceae also.
See Also
Gerra radicalis
Internet References
Image of pinned adults & larva - Moths of SE Arizona
Image of pinned adult - Moth Photographers Group
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Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 8 April, 2008 - 11:50am
Additional contributions by Ted Kropiewnicki, David Ferguson, Randy Hardy
Last updated 18 August, 2012 - 10:59am

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