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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Melipotini » Cissusa » Vigorous Cissusa Moth - Hodges#8596 (Cissusa valens)

Species Cissusa valens - Vigorous Cissusa Moth - Hodges#8596

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

Unidentifed Owlet Moth - Cissusa valens - male

Unknown moth part 2 - Cissusa valens - male

Cissusa valens? - Cissusa valens - female

Phoberia atomaria - Cissusa valens - female

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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 Melipotini

Genus Cissusa

Species valens (Vigorous Cissusa Moth - Hodges#8596)

Hodges Number

8596

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cissusa valens (Hy. Edwards, 1881)

Synedoida valens Hy. Edwards, 1881

Ulosyneda valens

Synedoida insperata Grote, 1882 (176)

Synedoida cervina Hy. Edwards, 1882 (129)

* phylogenetic sequence #930867

Explanation of Names

Specific name valens is Latin meaning "vigorous/strong/healthy."

Size

Larva to 40 mm. (1)

Identification

Larva - see Crumb in Print References.

Adult - see Edwards in Print References.

Range

A southwestern species that ranges from Utah east to Colorado, south to western Texas, and west to Arizona. (1), (2)

Type locality: Kanab, Utah.

Food

Larval host is oak. (1)

Print References

Crumb, S.E. 1956. The Larvae of the Phalaenidae. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1135: 274 (1)

Edwards, Hy. 1881. Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera. Papilio 1(7): 119-120

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	The Larvae of the Phalaenidae [Noctuidae] Samuel Ebb Crumb. 1956. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1135: 1-356.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 24 October, 2005 - 9:34am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Maury Heiman, Ted Kropiewnicki, Randy Hardy, Steve Morris
Last updated 7 April, 2023 - 9:16pm

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