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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Litter Moths (Herminiinae) » Palthis » Faint-spotted Palthis - Hodges#8398 (Palthis asopialis)

Species Palthis asopialis - Faint-spotted Palthis - Hodges#8398

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
Faint-spotted Palthis - Palthis asopialis dark moth with wide legs - Palthis asopialis Faint-spotted Palthis - Palthis asopialis Palthis asopialis Faint-spotted Palthis - Palthis asopialis - Hodges #8398 or a Dark-spotted Palthis - Palthis angulalis - Palthis asopialis Brown moth with curved abdomen and two-part snout - Palthis asopialis Moth to porch light - Palthis asopialis Palthis asopialis? - Palthis asopialis - male
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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 Herminiinae (Litter Moths)
Genus Palthis
Species asopialis (Faint-spotted Palthis - Hodges#8398)
Hodges Number
8398
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Palthis asopialis (Guenée, 1854)
Bertula insignalis Walker, 1859
Phylogenetic sequence # 930552
Numbers
one of two species found in America north of Mexico.(1)
Size
19-23 mm wingspan
Identification
Range
Florida to Texas and north to Ontario
Food
Recorded food plants include Bidens species, and the leaves of beans, corn, and oak. Wikipedia
See Also
Palthis angulalis
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
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.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 21 August, 2004 - 9:49am
Additional contributions by Jason D. Roberts, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 8 April, 2014 - 1:20pm

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