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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Phosphilini » Acherdoa » Chocolate Moth - Hodges#9636 (Acherdoa ferraria)

Species Acherdoa ferraria - Chocolate Moth - Hodges#9636

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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 Acherdoa
Species ferraria (Chocolate Moth - Hodges#9636)
Hodges Number
9636
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Acherdoa ferraria – Walker, 1865
Varina ornata - Neumoegen, 1884
Numbers
the only species in this genus in North America north of Mexico (a)
Size
wingspan 26-28 mm(1)
Identification
Adult: forewing chocolate to reddish-brown with purplish-gray in terminal area; lower AM and PM lines white; most of reniform spot edged with white; hindwing brownish-black; antennae broadly pectinate in male, simple in female
[description by Charles Covell]
Range
Maryland and Virginia to Florida, west to Louisiana
Season
adults fly from March to September, or all year in southern Florida
Food
larval food unrecorded
See Also
could be confused with moths in Limacodidae
Print References
Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. P. 71 (a) (PDF download)
Poole, R. W, 1989; Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum catalogus (New Series, Fasc. 1180, p. 592(1)
Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico(2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pinned adults.
pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)
pinned adult image by John Glaser, Maryland (Larry Line, Moths of Maryland)
Moth Photographers Group - photograph of pinned adult and related species.
presence in Virginia; PDF doc list plus common name reference and state status of S1S2 (Steven Roble, Virginia Dept. of Conservation and Recreation)
presence in Florida; list (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)
presence in North Carolina 8 pinned specimens in collection, including locally-collected specimens (North Carolina State U.)
classification history of genus up to 1999 (Brian Pitkin, Butterflies and Moths of the World)
caterpillar - Spring 2012 Charleston Co Parks Newsletter
Works Cited
1.Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2)
Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .
2.Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico.
Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 12 June, 2006 - 8:28pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Maury Heiman
Last updated 4 March, 2017 - 11:00pm

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