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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Euclidiini » Cutina » Cypress Looper - Hodges#8728 (Cutina albopunctella)

Species Cutina albopunctella - Cypress Looper - Hodges#8728

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Cutina albopunctella - Cypress Looper - Cutina albopunctella

Gray Cypress Owlet - Cutina albopunctella

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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 Erebinae

Tribe Euclidiini

Genus Cutina

Species albopunctella (Cypress Looper - Hodges#8728)

Hodges Number

8728

Other Common Names

White-spotted Cutina Moth

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cutina albopunctella Walker, 1866

Phylogenetic sequence # 930963

Size

Forewing length: (1)

males 11.2-14 mm.

females 11.8-13.9 mm

Identification

Sexually dimorphic.

Range

Southeastern United States : southern Florida north to coastal Maryland, east to southern Indiana and south to eastern Texas. (1)

Food

Larval host plant is Taxodium distichum (bald cypress). (1)

Print References

Wagner, David L. 2011. Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America. (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Moth Photographers Group - photo of live Cutina albopunctella and related species.

Larry Lines's Moths of Maryland - pinned adult and collection notes.

Dalton State University - pinned adult.

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the cypress-feeding moths of the genus Cutina ( Walker) Lepidoptera: Noctuidae M. G. Pogue, D. C. Ferguson . 1998. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 100(2): 331-352.

2.	Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America David L. Wagner. 2011. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by v belov on 9 July, 2009 - 5:45pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 5 January, 2017 - 10:25pm

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