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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) » Elaphriini » Bryolymnia » Bryolymnia viridata - Hodges#9296 (Bryolymnia viridata)

Species Bryolymnia viridata - Hodges#9296

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

Cryphia viridata ? - Bryolymnia viridata

Mottled Green Moth - Bryolymnia viridata

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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 Elaphriini

Genus Bryolymnia

Species viridata (Bryolymnia viridata - Hodges#9296)

Hodges Number

9296

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cryphia viridata (Harvey, 1876) (1)

Jaspidea viridata Harvey, 1876

Phylogenetic sequence #932240

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included eight species of the genus Bryolymnia in America, north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Forewing length 12-15 mm.

Identification

Lafontaine, Walsh, & Holland (2010) revised description is in PDF. (1)

Specimens identified by DNA analysis:

Range

Western California, south to Baja California. (3)

Season

Adults fly from late May to mid-October

See Also

Let's compare your moth with these images below: (see here and here for terminology)

Bryolymnia viridata has a jagged and irregular PM line followed by an irregular ST line. The terminal line is reduced to separated dashes.

Feralia februalis has a jagged and smoothly curved PM line (doubled) followed by a nearly missing ST line. The terminal line is wavy, but connected.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

University of California, Berkeley - photos of live adults.

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the genus Bryolymnia Hampson in North America with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae..... Donald Lafontaine, J. Walsh, Richard Holland . 2010. ZooKeys 39: 187-204.

2.	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 .

3.	Essig Museum of Entomology, California Moth Species List

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Tim Loh on 7 February, 2009 - 12:02am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Chris Grinter, Randy Hardy, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 11 June, 2022 - 10:26pm

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