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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) » Elaphriini » Midgets (Elaphria) » Elaphria agrotina - Hodges#9677 (Elaphria agrotina)

Species Elaphria agrotina - Hodges#9677

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Elaphria agrotina - Hodges#9677 - Elaphria agrotina - 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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Elaphriini

Genus Elaphria (Midgets)

Species agrotina (Elaphria agrotina - Hodges#9677 )

Hodges Number

9677

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Elaphria agrotina (Guenée, 1852)

Celaena agrotina Guenée, 1852 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932227

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included 15 species of the genus Elaphria in America north of Mexico. (2)

Size

Wingspan 18 mm.

Identification

Genitalia:

Range

Florida, north to Maryland, Kentucky; Texas. (3), (4), (5)

West Indies, Mexico to Brazil. (6), (5)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

Heppner (2003) reported the flight period as January to October, December. (5)

Food

Larval host is unknown. (5)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (7)

Works Cited

1.	The Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) from Cuba described by Herrich-Schãffer and Gundlach in the Gundlach Collection, Havana Vitor O. Becker. 2002. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 19(2): 349-391.

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.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

6.	The large moths of Guana Island, British Virgin. Islands: A survey of efficient colonizers. (Sphingidae, Notodontidae, ... Vitor O. Becker, Scott E. Miller. 2002. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 56(1): 9-44 .

7.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 8 April, 2012 - 4:15pm
Additional contributions by Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 13 November, 2023 - 10:33am

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