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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) » Orthosiini » Morrisonia » Morrisonia mucens - Hodges#10519 (Morrisonia mucens)

Species Morrisonia mucens - Hodges#10519

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Gray Woodgrain Moth - Hodges #10519 - Morrisonia mucens - male Morrisonia? - Morrisonia mucens Hodges#10519 (Morrisonia mucens) ? - Morrisonia mucens Moth - Morrisonia mucens 10519 - Morrisonia mucens Off-white & Rust Moth - Morrisonia mucens - female Off-white & Rust Moth - Morrisonia mucens - female Morrisonia evicta - Morrisonia mucens - male
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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 Orthosiini
Genus Morrisonia
Species mucens (Morrisonia mucens - Hodges#10519)
Hodges Number
10519
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Morrisonia mucens (Hübner, [1831]) (1)
Septis mucens Hübner, [1831]
Xylophasia sectilis Guenée, 1852 (141)
Phylogenetic sequence # 932801 (1)
Identification
Range
Texas(2) and Oklahoma(3) to Florida(4) and north along the Atlantic states to Maine. (5), (6)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Bug Guide - map of photo records submitted to the guide.
Season
Most records are from February through October.(5)
Florida is January to April and July to August. (Heppner) (7)
Food
Larval host is repotedly Quercus L. (oak)(8) although the closely related M. confusa is widely polyphagous.
See Also
Morrisonia evicta with the lighter reniform.
Print References
Guenée, 1836. Histoire naturelle des insectes spécies général des Lépidoptères. p. (141)
Internet References
Moth Photographer's Group (5)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (9)
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.Moths of Stengl "Lost Pines" Biological Research Station (University of Texas, Austin)
3.Oklahoma moth species list by county (PDF)
4.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.South Carolina Moth Species
7.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
8.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
9.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Nina on 6 September, 2009 - 11:29am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Chuck Sexton
Last updated 27 April, 2022 - 3:25pm

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