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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Condicinae » Condicini » Condica » Dusky Groundling Moth - Hodges#9696 (Condica vecors)

Species Condica vecors - Dusky Groundling Moth - Hodges#9696

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

Dusky Groundling - Hodges#9696 - Condica vecors

Black moth with orange trim - Condica vecors

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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 Condicinae

Tribe Condicini

Genus Condica

Species vecors (Dusky Groundling Moth - Hodges#9696)

Hodges Number

9696

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Condica vecors (Guenée, 1852)

Perigea vecors Guenée, 1852

Phylogenetic sequence #931995

Size

wingspan 29-38 mm (1)

Identification

Adult: forewing mottled dark brown and black; no strong pattern; PM and terminal lines represented by whitish dots; claviform spot black; lower half of reniform spot white; pale brown spot in middle of dark brown subterminal area; hindwing grayish-brown with conspicuous whitish fringe (1)

Genitalia:

♀

♂

Range

Newfoundland to Florida, west to Arizona, north to Ontario (1)

Season

adults fly from May to August in the north; April to October in the south (1)

Food

larval food plants are not well known, but include Eupatorium, according to David Wagner; larvae have been collected on lettuce in Florida (1)

Life Cycle

two generations per year

Larva; adult

Remarks

common in southern part of range

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - images of live and pinned adults

BOLD Systems(2)

Moths of North Carolina

iNaturalist

Works Cited

1.	Wikipedia

2.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 24 August, 2005 - 9:37am
Additional contributions by Tony-2, anitagould, Ethan Kistler, Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov, marcie oconnor, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 22 December, 2023 - 12:41pm

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