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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Melipotini » Melipotis » Melipotis agrotoides - Hodges#8608 (Melipotis agrotoides)

Species Melipotis agrotoides - Hodges#8608

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

WBC owlet moth - Melipotis agrotoides - male

Melipotis agrotoides (Walker) - Melipotis agrotoides - male

Melipotis agrotoides? - Melipotis agrotoides

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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 Melipotini

Genus Melipotis

Species agrotoides (Melipotis agrotoides - Hodges#8608)

Hodges Number

8608

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Melipotis agrotoides (Walker, [1858]

Bolina agrotoides Walker [1858]

Phylogenetic sequence # 930879 (1)

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed thirteen species of the genus Melipotis in America north of Mexico. (1)

Range

Southern Texas to South America.(2)

Remarks

Type Locality: Venezuela

See Also

Melipotis novanda

Ed Knudson stated "These two similar species are often misidentified.

The males are easier to separate as in agrotoides, there is a large square shaped pale patch on the basal fw, and in novanda this patch is more trapezoidal and smaller.

In agrotoides the black hw band stops before the anal angle, in novanda it usually continues into the anal angle.

Females may need to be dissected in some cases.

However, agrotoides is confined to the LRGV, whereas novanda occurs from there west to AZ."

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

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.	Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 2B: Macro-Moths Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2004. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. xiv + 59 pp. 20 plates.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 23 June, 2010 - 12:41am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 18 December, 2013 - 5:35pm

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