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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) » Xylenini » Cosmiina » Cosmia » American Dun-bar Moth - Hodges#9815 (Cosmia calami)

Species Cosmia calami - American Dun-bar Moth - Hodges#9815

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

Cosmia calami - Hodges #9815 - Cosmia calami

Noctuidae: Cosmia calami - Cosmia calami

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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 Xylenini

Subtribe Cosmiina

Genus Cosmia

Species calami (American Dun-bar Moth - Hodges#9815)

Hodges Number

9815

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cosmia calami (Harvey, 1876)

Calymnia calami Harvey, 1876

Size

forewing length 13-14 mm.(1)

Range

Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia, south to California, Arizona and Texas. South to Florida in the East.(1)

Habitat

oak woodlands(1)

Season

adults fly April to September with June and July being the peak.(1)

Food

the larvae are predaceous feeding on other caterpillars such as inchworms and also feed on the leaves of oak species.(1)

See Also

similar to some Datana species. (Notodontidae)

Print References

Powell, J. A. & P. A. Opler, Moths of Western North America, p. 299, pl. 54.26.(1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with collection map and photos of pinned adults.

Pacific Northwest Moths – detailed description & images of pinned adults (2)

Works Cited

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

2.	Pacific Northwest Moths

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 5 November, 2005 - 8:06pm
Additional contributions by tom murray, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 15 July, 2017 - 9:40am

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