Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Sideridis

Sideridis - probably maryx - Sideridis maryx Moth like Nocloa at lights - Sideridis rosea Sideridis congermana Maroonwing - Sideridis maryx Sideridis maryx - Maroonwing - Hodges#10268 - Sideridis maryx Sideridis maryx Noctuidae: Sideridis maryx - Sideridis maryx Tricholita chipeta  - Sideridis uscripta
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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 Hadenini
Genus Sideridis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
includes species uscripta, formerly placed in genus Trichoclea
Numbers
9 species in North America listed at All-Leps
Size
wingspan 35-42 mm
Range
holarctic; in North America, represented across southern Canada and northern United States, extending farther south in the Appalachians and Rockies (absent from Gulf states)
Internet References
pinned adult images of 6 species occurring in western Canada (CBIF)
pinned adult images of 4 species, plus photos of related species by Jim Vargo (Moth Photographers Group)