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Species Afrida ydatodes - Dyar's Lichen Moth - Hodges#8102

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Afrida ydatodes - Afrida ydatodes 102612Moth2 - Afrida ydatodes Dyar's Lichen Moth, # 8102 Afrida ydatodes - Afrida ydatodes Dyar's Lichen Moth - Afrida ydatodes - male Afrida ydatodes Florida Moth - Afrida ydatodes Florida Moth - Afrida ydatodes Afrida ydatodes
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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 Nolidae (Nolid Moths)
Subfamily Afridinae
Genus Afrida
Species ydatodes (Dyar's Lichen Moth - Hodges#8102)

Hodges Number

8102

Other Common Names

Dyar's Lichen Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Afrida ydatodes Dyar,
* phylogenetic sequence #931158
Formerly in Arctiidae, Lithosiinae

Numbers

Three Afrida species occur in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

wingspan about 10 mm

Identification

Species page created based on this image ID'ed by Ed Knudson, Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston:

Range

Gulf Coast States and coastal Atlantic to at least North Carolina

See Also

Afrida minuta *pinned adult @ Moth Photographers Group
. . . . . .
Afrida exegens *pinned adult @ Moth Photographers Group

Print References

Lafontaine J. D., and B. C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 42.(1)
Dyar. H. D. 1913. Insecutor inscitiae menstruus: a monthly journal of entomology, Volume 1, p. 42. read online @books.google.com

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.
BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - collection map and pinned adults.
Moth Photographers Group - photo of living Afrida ydatodes and related species.

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 .
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 25 January, 2009 - 4:14pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 28 October, 2012 - 11:16am

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