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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Eustrotiinae » Lithacodia » Small Mossy Lithacodia - Hodges#9051 (Lithacodia musta)

Species Lithacodia musta - Small Mossy Lithacodia - Hodges#9051

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

Small Mossy Lithacodia - Hodges#9051 - Lithacodia musta

Large Mossy Lithacodia Moth - Protodeltote muscosula ?? - Lithacodia musta

No. 163 Lithacodia musta - Lithacodia musta

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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 Eustrotiinae

Genus Lithacodia

Species musta (Small Mossy Lithacodia - Hodges#9051)

Hodges Number

9051

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lithacodia musta (Grote & Robinson, 1868)

Deltote musta (Grote & Robinson, 1868)

Erastria musta Grote & Robinson, 1868

Numbers

Three species are found in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

Wingspan 15-19 mm.

Identification

Forewing dark greenish with blackish shading and lines; green fades to yellowish in old specimens; reniform spot round or broadly oval, white with reddish-brown and white filling; short white line extends upward from inner margin near anal angle; hindwing gray.

[adapted from description by Charles Covell]

Range

New Hampshire to Florida, west to Arizona, north to Wisconsin

Season

Adults fly from May to September.

Food

Larval food is unknown as of February 2006.

See Also

Large Mossy Lithacodia (L. muscosula) has extensive grayish-brown shading on the forewing, more white in subterminal area (not just a short white line), and a more curved reniform spot (see pinned image of L. muscosula)

Print References

Lafontaine, D., Schmidt, B. C.

2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group(2)

BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems(3)

Moths of Maryland

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 11 February, 2006 - 12:24am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ron M., Randy Hardy
Last updated 24 July, 2018 - 9:57pm

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