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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Aventiini » Oruza » The White Edge - Hodges#9025 (Oruza albocostaliata)

Species Oruza albocostaliata - The White Edge - Hodges#9025

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

Oruza albocostaliata - The White Edge - Hodges#9025 - Oruza albocostaliata

The White Edge - (Oruza albocostaliata) - Oruza albocostaliata

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Boletobiinae

Tribe Aventiini

Genus Oruza

Species albocostaliata (The White Edge - Hodges#9025)

Hodges Number

9025

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Oruza albocostaliata (Packard, 1876)

Acidalia albocostaliata Packard, 1876

Phylogenetic sequence # 930698

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included two species of the genus Oruza in America north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Forewing length 9.9-11.2 mm. (2)

Identification

Small body and broad forewing--resembles a geometer in form. Forewing has prominent white band on leading edge.

Range

Eastern United States: Massachusetts south to Florida, west to Missouri, Texas. (2)

Season

April-September

Food

Larval host is unknown. (2)

Life Cycle

Larval feeding habits unknown.

See Also

Oruza albocostata

Print References

Covell, p. 145, plate 29 (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographer's Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Lepbarcoding.org

Moths of Maryland

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.	Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Michael G. Pogue. 2012. Zootaxa 3153: 1–31 .

3.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Cotinis on 21 August, 2005 - 6:08am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 14 August, 2013 - 9:53am

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