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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Spragueia » Spragueia cleta - Hodges#9123 (Spragueia cleta)

Species Spragueia cleta - Hodges#9123

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

Spragueia cleta - Hodges #9123 - Spragueia cleta

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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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)

Tribe Acontiini

Genus Spragueia

Species cleta (Spragueia cleta - Hodges#9123)

Hodges Number

9123

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Spragueia cleta (Druce, 1889)

Agrophila cleta Druce, 1889 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 931383

Numbers

Spragueia has 12 species in America north of Mexico. (2), (3)

Identification

Description can be found at nearctica.com.

The original description as Agrophila cleta Druce, is available online in the print references below.

Abdomen is ringed with yellow-white bands. (4)

Range

Arizona, Mexico, and Central America. (2), (4), (5)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Adults fly June through September. (2)

Food

Larval host unknown. (4)

See Also

Spragueia guttata

Spragueia dama

Compare to others on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Druce, 1889. Biologia Centrali-Americana. p. 302.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Moths of Southeastern Arizona

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

nearctica.com

lepbarcoding.org

Works Cited

1.	Review of the New World genera of the subfamily Acontiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) J. Donald Lafontaine, Robert W. Poole . 2010. ZooKeys 39: 137–160 .

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	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 .

4.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

5.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 27 September, 2009 - 2:50pm
Last updated 23 April, 2013 - 1:54pm

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