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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Agaristinae » Gerra » Gerra sevorsa - Hodges#9303 (Gerra sevorsa)

Species Gerra sevorsa - Hodges#9303

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 Agaristinae

Genus Gerra

Species sevorsa (Gerra sevorsa - Hodges#9303)

Hodges Number

9303

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gerra sevorsa (Grote, 1882)

Fenaria sevorsa Grote, 1882

Diamuna aedessa Druce, 1889

Diamuna aelia Druce, 1889

Gerra brephos Draudt, 1919

Gerra sevorsa form meridionalis Draudt, 1919, in Seitz

* phylogenetic sequence #931968

Size

Forewing length 15-19 mm. (1)

Pupa 15-19 mm (Comstock, 1961).

Range

Southeast Arizona and north central New Mexico south to Panama.

Food

Parthenocissus, Vitis and perhaps other Vitaceae. (2)

Wild Grape - (Vitis arizonica) USDA Plant Profile

Remarks

Wanders around on branches and suitable surfaces with wings held high, revealing the striking underside pattern. At rest the wings are hastily folded together and rested against the surface, revealing the less colourful side of the moth.

See Also

Gerra radicalis

Print References

Comstock, J.A. 1961. Brief notes on the life histories of three southwestern moths. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 60(1): 40-43

Grote, A.R. 1882. New Arizonan and Texan moths. Papilio 2(8): 132-133

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. Pl.51.1m; p.283 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page with photograph of living and pinned adults.

Moth Photographers Group - photograph of living adult and related species.

The Moths of Southeastern Arizona - photograph of pinned adult and larval foodplants.

Butterflies and Moths of North America - species page.

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

2.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Tim Loh on 28 August, 2009 - 2:43pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, MightyMouse, David Ferguson, James Bailey, Randy Hardy
Last updated 30 August, 2017 - 8:38pm

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