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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Hypenodinae » Dyspyralis » Visitation Moth - Hodges#8426 (Dyspyralis illocata)

Species Dyspyralis illocata - Visitation Moth - Hodges#8426

Classification · Hodges Number · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References

Visitation Moth - Dyspyralis illocata - male

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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 Hypenodinae

Genus Dyspyralis

Species illocata (Visitation Moth - Hodges#8426)

Hodges Number

8426

Size

wingspan about 15 mm ?

Identification

forewing mottled grayish-brown with broad dark grayish band crossing wing in median area (edges of band irregular); dark oblique patch along costa near apex; terminal line composed of several dark semi-ellipses; fringe checkered pale and dark

hindwing light brown or gray with slightly darker discal spot

Genitalia:

Range

Nova Scotia to North Carolina, north to Ontario

Habitat

low vegetation in woodlands

Season

adults fly from June to August

Food

food plant unknown

Life Cycle

one generation per year

Internet References

live and pinned adult images plus common name reference (Moth Photographers Group)

pinned adult image (CBIF)

pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)

pinned adult image (John Glaser, Maryland)

distribution in Canada; list (CBIF)

presence in North Carolina; list - PDF doc plus flight season (Southern Lepidopterists Society)

flight season; PDF doc plus life cycle (Macrolepidoptera of the Mont Saint-Hilaire Region, McGill U., Quebec)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 9 December, 2005 - 7:07pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Robert Lord Zimlich, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 1 September, 2023 - 8:59am

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