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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Phaegopterina » Leucanopsis » Long-streaked Tussock Moth - Hodges#8217 (Leucanopsis longa)

Species Leucanopsis longa - Long-streaked Tussock Moth - Hodges#8217

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Black and almost white Cat - Leucanopsis longa Leucanopsis - Leucanopsis longa Hodges #8217 - Long-streaked Tussock Moth - Leucanopsis longa 5/21 moth - Leucanopsis longa Yellow moth - Leucanopsis longa Is this Leucanopsis longa? - Leucanopsis longa Likely the Long-streaked Tussock Moth - Leucanopsis longa Straw colored moth - Leucanopsis longa
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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 Erebidae
Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)
Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)
Subtribe Phaegopterina
Genus Leucanopsis
Species longa (Long-streaked Tussock Moth - Hodges#8217)
Hodges Number
8217
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Leucanopsis longa (Grote(1), 1880)
Halisidota longa (Grote, 1880)
Euphalisidota longa Grote, 1880 (2)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930376
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included three species of the genus Leucanopsis in America north of Mexico. (3)
Size
Wingspan 38-48 mm.
Grote (1880) reported a forewing length of 25 mm. (2)
Identification
Adult: forewing light orangish-yellow speckled with brown; dark brown streak from base to outer margin near apex; hindwing whitish, translucent, unmarked
[adapted from description by Charles Covell]
Range
North Carolina to Florida, west along coast to eastern Texas. (4), (5), (6), (7)
Habitat
Marshes and wet sedge meadows.
Season
Heppner (2003) reported the adults fly all year in Florida. (7)
Food
Larvae probably feed on grasses; the only recorded host is a "wide-bladed marsh grass that grows near freshwater lakes and ponds" [Covell's Guide]
Heppner (2003) reported marsh grass. (7)
Life Cycle
(8)
See Also
Pyrrharctia isabella forewing has heavier spots, transverse lines, and lacks dark brown streak down middle of wing.
Leucanopsis lurida and Leucanopsis perdentata occur only in New Mexico and Arizona.
Print References
Grote, A.R., 1880. New species of N. Am. moths. The Canadian Entomologist, 12(10): 213. (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (5)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (9)
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (10)
Works Cited
1.Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)
2.New species of N. Am. moths
Augustus Radcliffe Grote . 1880. The Canadian Entomologist, 12(10): 213-220.
3.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 .
4.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
5.North American Moth Photographers Group
6.A partial checklist of moths from mixed mesophytic hardwood forests in Louisiana (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
Deborah Landau, Dorothy Prowell. 1999. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 125(1+2): 139-150.
7.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
8.Tiger Moths and Woolly Bears: behavior, ecology, and evolution of the Arctiidae.
William E. Conner (ed.). 2009. Oxford University Press.
9.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
10.Butterflies of North America
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 13 May, 2006 - 11:23am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 12 September, 2013 - 10:49am

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