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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) » Actinotiini » Nedra » Gray Half-Spot - Hodges#9582 (Nedra ramosula)

Species Nedra ramosula - Gray Half-Spot - Hodges#9582

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References

Nedra ramosula (Gray Half-Spot) - Nedra ramosula

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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 Actinotiini

Genus Nedra

Species ramosula (Gray Half-Spot - Hodges#9582)

Hodges Number

9582

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Nedra ramosula (Guenée, 1852)

Cloantha ramosula Guenée, 1851

Delta ramosula

* phylogenetic sequence #932283

Size

wingspan 28-48 mm

Identification

forewing streaked with silver-gray, brown, and white on black background; orbicular spot elongated, outlined in black and filled with brownish-gray; reniform spot partially outlined in white, especially around lower end, and filled with brown [adapted from description by Lynn Scott]

Range

Manitoba to Newfoundland, south to Florida, west to Texas

Season

adults fly from May to September in Ontario, April to October in Ohio

Food

larvae feed on Saint Johnswort (Hypericum spp.)

Life Cycle

Larva; larva; adult

See Also

Bicolored Woodgrain (Morrisonia evicta) is superficially similar

Print References

Clarke, J. F. Gates 1940. A study of the North American moths formerly referred to Delta Saalmüller, with two new species (Lepidoptera: Phalaenidae). Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 39(1): 42-44

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page

Butterflies and Moths of North America

pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 2 August, 2005 - 12:48pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Jason D. Roberts, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 14 January, 2024 - 2:27pm

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