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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Looper Moths (Plusiinae) » Argyrogrammatini » Ctenoplusia » Sharp-stigma Looper Moth - Hodges#8889 (Ctenoplusia oxygramma)

Species Ctenoplusia oxygramma - Sharp-stigma Looper Moth - Hodges#8889

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Sharp-stigma Looper Moth - Hodges #8889 - Ctenoplusia oxygramma Owlet Moth? Side View - Ctenoplusia oxygramma Autographa sp. - Ctenoplusia oxygramma Ctenoplusia oxygramma? - Ctenoplusia oxygramma TS - Ctenoplusia oxygramma Ctenoplusia oxygramma - Sharp-stigma Looper Moth - Ctenoplusia oxygramma Looper Moth - Ctenoplusia oxygramma Moth to porch light - Ctenoplusia oxygramma
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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 Plusiinae (Looper Moths)
Tribe Argyrogrammatini
Genus Ctenoplusia
Species oxygramma (Sharp-stigma Looper Moth - Hodges#8889)
Hodges Number
8889
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ctenoplusia oxygramma (Geyer, 1832)
Autographa oxygramma Geyer, 1832
Synonyms
Plusia indigna Walker, 1858
P. parallela Walker, 1858
P. collateralis Herrich-Schaffer, 1868
Phylogenetic sequence # 931169 (1)
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed Ctenoplusia oxygramma as the only member of the genus in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
forewing length 15-18 mm (Pogue, 2005).(2)
Range
Eastern one-half and Southwest United States, south to Tropics (Eichlin & Cunningham, 1978). Scattered records in Kansas, Nebraska, western Texas, and southeastern Arizona (Pogue, 2005).(2)
Food
Crumb (1956) reported Aster sp., Erigeron canadensis, Nicotiana tahaccum, Solidago sp. (3)
Life Cycle
Eichlin & Cunningham (1978) reported many of the last-instar larvae leave the host to pupate on nearby broad-leafed plants upon which they do not feed. (4)
Larva; larva; adult
Print References
Eichlin, T.D. & H.B. Cunningham 1978. The Plusiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of America north of Mexico, emphasizing genitalic and larval morphology. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1567. p. 15. (4)
Lafontaine, J.D. & R.W. Poole 1991. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 25.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 47; plate 1, fig. 10. (5)
Pogue, M.G. 2005. The Plusiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Zootaxa 1032: 1–28. (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (6)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)
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 Plusiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Michael G, Pogue. 2005. Magnolia Press Zootaxa 1032: 1–28.
3.The Larvae of the Phalaenidae [Noctuidae]
Samuel Ebb Crumb. 1956. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1135: 1-356.
4.The Plusiinae (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae) of America north of Mexico, emphasizing genitalic and larval morphology
Thomas D. Eichlin, Hugh B. Cunningham. 1978. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1567: 1-121.
5.The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 25.1. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (part), Plusiinae
J. Donald Lafontaine, Robert W. Poole. 1991. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
6.North American Moth Photographers Group
7.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Jeff Hollenbeck, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 2 October, 2017 - 9:05am

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