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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Tarache » Tarache dacia - Hodges#9144 (Tarache dacia)

Species Tarache dacia - Hodges#9144

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Tarache dacia - female Tarache dacia - female Moth - Tarache dacia - male Moth - Tarache dacia - female Moth - Tarache dacia
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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 Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)
Tribe Acontiini
Genus Tarache
Species dacia (Tarache dacia - Hodges#9144)
Hodges Number
9144
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tarache dacia (Druce)
Acontia dacia Druce, 1889
Syn: Tarache curvilinea Barnes and McDunnough, 1913
Numbers
34 Tarache species occur in America north of Mexico.(1)
Size
forewing length about 11 mm.
Identification
sexually dimorphic
Range
Texas south to Mexico and Central America
Season
adults fly May through August - Robert W. Poole
Moth Photographers Group has April records for Texas
Food
larval host unknown
See Also

Deltote bellicula
Print References
Druce. 1889. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Lepidoptera-Heterocera, 1: 308, pl. 28, fig. 25.
Lafontaine J.D. and B.C. Schmidt. 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 47. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group
Robert W. Poole - Nearctica.com
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 .
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 16 August, 2012 - 11:05pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 10:42pm

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