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Species Gerra radicalis - Hodges#9302

Gerra radicalis pinned specimen - Gerra radicalis

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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 Agaristinae

Genus Gerra

Species radicalis (Gerra radicalis - Hodges#9302)

Hodges Number

9302

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gerra radicalis Walker, 1864

Diamuna adrasta Druce, 1889

* phylogenetic sequence #931967

Identification

Similar to G. sevorsa, but with front wing above with nearly evenly curved red-brown postmedian line bordered on outer side by a pale submarginal band; with three dark submarginal triangles near apex not well-developed (usually only two in number), but usually prominent and well-developed in G. sevorsa. Hind wing of G. radicalis with dark border wider.

See also Gerrodes minataea, which is larger, with the curved bands of the outer front wing curving around along the inner margin, and also with the hind wing dark border narrower.

Range

se. Arizona and sw. New Mexico to s. Mexico

Food

unknown, but likely uses Vitaceae as larval hosts