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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Eriopinae » Callopistria » Silver-spotted Fern Moth - Hodges#9633 (Callopistria cordata)

Species Callopistria cordata - Silver-spotted Fern Moth - Hodges#9633

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Eriopinae
Genus Callopistria
Species cordata (Silver-spotted Fern Moth - Hodges#9633)
Hodges Number
9633
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Callopistria cordata – (Ljungh, 1825)
Eriopus monetifera - Guenée, 1852
Explanation of Names
CORDATA: "cordate" means heart-shaped; perhaps a reference to the rounded triangular shapes on the forewing
Numbers
Five species of Callopistria are found in America north of Mexico (a)
Size
Wingspan 25-28 mm
Identification
forewing orange or reddish-brown, mottled with yellow, and having two large silvery-white spots near the middle or the wing, plus a line of several smaller spots in the subterminal area; small yellowish patch at apex
hindwing pale grayish with yellowish fringe along outer edge
Range
Eastern North America
Season
adults fly from June to August, earlier (March) in southern United States
Food
Larvae feed on ferns. Most commonly Bracken Fern. (Moths of North Carolina)
Life Cycle
Larva; larva; adult
Print References
Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 71 (a) (PDF download)
Covell, p. 131, plate 26 #14 (1)
Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico(2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - species account with photos of larvae, living and pinned adults.
BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with photographs of pinned adults and DNA sequence
Moths of North Carolina
iNaturalist
Works Cited
1.Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths
Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.
2.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
Contributed by Cotinis on 18 May, 2004 - 2:26pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor
Last updated 1 May, 2024 - 8:16am

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