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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Condicinae » Leuconyctini » Leuconycta » Marbled-green Leuconycta - Hodges#9066 (Leuconycta lepidula)

Species Leuconycta lepidula - Marbled-green Leuconycta - Hodges#9066

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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 Condicinae
Tribe Leuconyctini
Genus Leuconycta
Species lepidula (Marbled-green Leuconycta - Hodges#9066)
Hodges Number
9066
Other Common Names
Marbled-Green Jaspidia
Owlet Moth
Dark Leuconycta
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Leuconycta lepidula (Grote, 1874)
Jaspidia lepidula Grote, 1874
Phylogentic sequence # 932027
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed two species of the genus Leuconycta in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
wingspan about 30 mm
Identification
forewing mottled grayish-brown and black, with large green spots and patches on distal half (green color may be lacking in some specimens, replaced by pale gray or brown); large black patch near base of costa, and an inverted black triangle midway along costa
hindwing dark gray, with fringe composed of dark and pale scales
Range
Nova Scotia to North Carolina, west to Texas, north to Alberta (i.e. North America east of the Rockies, except for southeastern states)
Habitat
woodland edges, meadows and grassy fields
Season
The main flight period is April to September with records beginning in March. (2)
Food
larvae feed on Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Life Cycle
one generation per year
See Also
Lacinipolia strigicollis


Several other Lacinipolia are similar. Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
live adult images (Lynn Scott, Ontario)
University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
pinned adult image (CBIF)
pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
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.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 6 July, 2005 - 6:56pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ethan Kistler
Last updated 30 November, 2013 - 4:52pm

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