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Species Metria bilineata - Ebony Metria - Hodges#8667

South Texas moth, identified by a good source as Metria bilineata - Metria bilineata

Bentsen HQ caterpillar - Metria bilineata

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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 Erebinae

Tribe Omopterini

Genus Metria

Species bilineata (Ebony Metria - Hodges#8667)

Hodges Number

8667

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Metria bilineata (Smith, 1899) (1)

Orig. Comb: Campometra bilineata Smith, 1899 (102)

Phylogenetic sequence # 930993

Numbers

three named species north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan 44 mm (type) (pg. 102)

Identification

variable, see series of images at Moth Photographers Group

Range

common across southmost TX, ranges n. to Corpus Christi, historical records from MS & FL - Map (2)

Season

Feb-Oct (2)

Food

Larvae host on Texas ebony (Ebenopsis ebano, Fabaceae) (Poole, 1989)

Life Cycle

pretty common at [fruit] bait in the lower Rio Grande Valley (Mike Rickard, pers. obser.)

Remarks

Type coll'ed by Townsend, 10 June 1895, Brownsville, Cameron Co., Texas

Print References

Hodges, R.W. (ed.) 1983. Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico. (3)

Knudson, E., & C. Bordelon. 2004. Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, TX. Vol. 2B: Macro-Moths.(4)

Lafontaine J.D., & B.C. Schmidt 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p. 37.(1)

Poole, R.W. 1989. Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series). Fascicle 118. Noctuidae, Parts 1-3.

Smith, J.B. 1899. New species of nocturnal moths of the genus Campometra and notes Proceedings of the United States National Museum, p. (102)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - MPG

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems

Moth Photographers Group - photo of pinned Metria bilineata and related species.

Type Info - Smithsonian

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.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

3.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

4.	Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 2B: Macro-Moths Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2004. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. xiv + 59 pp. 20 plates.

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 2 September, 2012 - 6:13pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 13 May, 2021 - 12:41am

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