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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Catocalini » Underwings (Catocala) » The Consort Underwing - Hodges#8772 (Catocala consors)

Species Catocala consors - The Consort Underwing - Hodges#8772

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

The Consort Underwing - Catocala consors

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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 Catocalini

Genus Catocala (Underwings)

Species consors (The Consort Underwing - Hodges#8772)

Hodges Number

8772

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Catocala consors (J.E. Smith, 1797) (1), (2), (3)

Phalaena consors J.E. Smith, 1797 (4)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet is Latin meaning "shared, common."

Range

Records from Texas to Florida, north to Maine. (5)

Food

Larval hosts include: (6)

wild indigo (Baptisia)

sand hickory (Carya pallida)

creeping jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)

sweetgale (Myrica)

Print References

Barnes, Wm. & J.H. McDunnough, 1918. Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1): 6; Pl.7, f.7; Pl.12, f.16 (larva) (3)

Smith, J.E. & J. Abbot, 1797. The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia. J. Edwards, Cadell & Davies, and J. White, London., vol. 2: 177; Pl.89. (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (7)

James Edward Smith (1759-1828)

Works Cited

1.	On the North American species of Catocala. Augustus Radcliffe Grote. 1872. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4: 1-20.

2.	The genus Catocala. George. D. Hulst. 1884. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 7(1): 14-56.

3.	Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. William Barnes, James Halliday McDunnough. 1918. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1).

4.	The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia. James Edward Smith & John Abbot. 1797. J. Edwards, Cadell & Davies, and J. White, London. 2 vols., 214 pp., 104 pl. .

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

7.	Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala

Contributed by Ron M. on 20 March, 2010 - 6:18am
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 10 March, 2018 - 8:22pm

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