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Species Acronicta afflicta - Afflicted Dagger Moth - Hodges#9254

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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 Acronictinae
Genus Acronicta (Dagger Moths)
Species afflicta (Afflicted Dagger Moth - Hodges#9254)
Hodges Number
9254
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Acronicta afflicta Grote(1), 1864
Phylogenetic sequence # 931471 (2)
Food
Oaks - both red and white groups (3)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (4)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)
Butterflies and Moths of North America
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.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 .
3.Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America
David L. Wagner. 2011. Princeton University Press.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Jeff Hollenbeck, Maury Heiman, Ethan Kistler, marcie oconnor
Last updated 4 March, 2019 - 2:13pm

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