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Species Phosphila miselioides - Spotted Phosphila - Hodges#9619

Spotted Phosphila - Phosphila miselioides

Spotted Phosphila - Hodges#9619 - Phosphila miselioides

Spotted Phosphila Moth - Phosphila miselioides

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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 Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Phosphilini

Genus Phosphila

Species miselioides (Spotted Phosphila - Hodges#9619)

Hodges Number

9619

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phosphila miselioides (Guenée, 1852)

Hadena miselioides Guenée, 1852

Numbers

one of two species listed for North America

Size

wingspan approximately 30 mm

Identification

Genitalia:

Range

Eastern North America. (1), (2), (3)

Food

Larva feed on Greenbrier sp. (4)

Smilax rotundifolia (Common Greenbrier) in Texas

Smilax herbacea (Smooth Carrion Flower) in the upper Mississippi Valley

Life Cycle

Two broods. (5)

Larva; adult

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Moths of Maryland

Works Cited

1.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America David L. Wagner. 2011. Princeton University Press.

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

5.	Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 16 April, 2006 - 11:46pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 10 November, 2023 - 12:41pm

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