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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Looper Moths (Plusiinae) » Plusiini » Euchalciina » Pitcherplant Moths (Exyra) » Epauletted Pitcher-plant Moth - Hodges#9021  (Exyra fax)

Species Exyra fax - Epauletted Pitcher-plant Moth - Hodges#9021

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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 Plusiinae (Looper Moths)
Tribe Plusiini
Subtribe Euchalciina
Genus Exyra (Pitcherplant Moths)
Species fax (Epauletted Pitcher-plant Moth - Hodges#9021 )
Hodges Number
9021
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Exyra fax (Grote, 1873) (1)
Xanthoptera fax Grote, 1873 (2)
syn. Exyra rolandiana [9022] (3)
Size
Wingspan 20-22 mm. (3)
Identification
Original description online as Xanthoptera fax Grote. (295), (2)
Range
Manitoba to Nova Scotia and Maine south to Georgia and Texas. (3)
Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.
Season
Adults fly May to September. (3)
Food
Larval host is Sarracenia purpurea L. (purple pitcher plant); larvae feed on the inner surface of the tubular leaves (Illinois Wildflowers)
See Also
Compare to related species on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.
Print References
Grote, A.R., 1867. Description of North American Noctuidae No. 3. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, p. (295), (2)
Lafontaine J. D., and B. C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. (4)
Lafontaine, J.D. & R.W. Poole, 1991. Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 25.1: p. 75; pl. 1.44-47.(1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems
lepbarcoding.org
Georgia Lepidoptera
Harvard Forest Description and B & W photos of life stages
Butterflies and Moths of North America
Works Cited
1.The Moths of America North of Mexico. Fascicle 25.1. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (part), Plusiinae
J. Donald Lafontaine, Robert W. Poole. 1991. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation.
2.Transactions of the American Entomological Society- Journal available for free from Internet Archive
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.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 .
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 21 July, 2012 - 1:19am
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor, Kyhl Austin, Blocky
Last updated 1 March, 2022 - 12:49pm

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