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Species Glympis concors - Hodges#8478

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Glympis concors - female Glympis concors - Hodges #8478 - Glympis concors moth - Glympis concors Glympis concors Moth - Glympis concors Glympis concors Florida Moth - Glympis concors Mystery Noctuid - Glympis concors
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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 Boletobiinae
Tribe Phytometrini
Genus Glympis
Species concors (Glympis concors - Hodges#8478)

Hodges Number

8478

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Glympis concors (Hübner, 1823)
Ophiusa concors Hübner, 1823
syn:
Metalectra agilaria (Druce, 1890)
Diastema flavicapilla (Möschler, 1890)
Isogona reniformis (Smith, 1903)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930714. (1)

Numbers

Glympis concors is the only member of the genus in America north of Mexico.(1)

Range

Florida to Texas. (2), (3)
West Indies, Mexico to Brazil. (3)
Ohio record on Moth Photographers Group represents a stray or error. (4)
Moth Photographers Group map(4)

Season

Most records are from January to February and May to December. (4), (3)

Food

Known larval hosts include Sesbania Scop. (seepweed). (3)

Print References

Godman & Salvin 1890. Biolgia Centrali Americana, Lepidoptera: Heterocera 1: 405.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

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.Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin
3.Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida
J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.
4.North American Moth Photographers Group
5.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 28 September, 2012 - 9:16am
Last updated 20 December, 2013 - 10:19am

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