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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Catocalini » Spiloloma » Moon-lined Moth - Hodges#8769 (Spiloloma lunilinea)

Species Spiloloma lunilinea - Moon-lined Moth - Hodges#8769

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

Almost hairless caterpillar - Spiloloma lunilinea

Spiloloma lunilinea (Moon-Lined Moth) - Spiloloma lunilinea

Tan moth with dark markings on wing edge - Spiloloma lunilinea

Tan Moth with edge marks - Spiloloma lunilinea

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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 Spiloloma

Species lunilinea (Moon-lined Moth - Hodges#8769)

Hodges Number

8769

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Spiloloma lunilinea (Grote)

Strenoloma lunilinea Grote, 1873

Phylogenetic sequence # 930760

Numbers

Monotypic genus. (1)

Size

Wingspan 44-54 mm.

Larvae mature to 35 mm. (2)

Identification

Adult - Gray with distinctive black marks on forewings, black collar

Crumb (1956) describes the larva. (2)

Range

TX-FL-MD-IA - Map (MPG)

Habitat

Deciduous forests

Season

mostly: Apr-Sep (MPG)

Food

Larval host is Honeylocust - Gleditsia triacanthos (Fabaceae) (2)

Print References

Covell, p. 172, plate 40 #4 (3)

Crumb, 1956. p. 286

Salsbury, p. 339--photo (4)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - MPG

Canadian Biodiversity

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Georgia Lepidoptera

Maryland Moths

Works Cited

1.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

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

3.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

4.	Insects in Kansas Glenn A. Salsbury and Stephan C. White. 2000. Kansas Dept. of Agriculture.

Contributed by Cotinis on 3 June, 2004 - 3:54pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, Randy Hardy
Last updated 26 May, 2014 - 12:44pm

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