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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Boletobiinae » Phytometrini » Mursa » Mursa phtisialis - Hodges#8477.2 (Mursa phtisialis)

Species Mursa phtisialis - Hodges#8477.2

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

Hodges#8477.2 – Mursa phtisialis - Mursa phtisialis

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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 Mursa

Species phtisialis (Mursa phtisialis - Hodges#8477.2)

Hodges Number

8477.2

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Mursa phtisialis (Guenée, 1854)

Physula phtisialis Guenée, 1854

Mursa calisalis (Walker, 1859) (1)

Aganzagara disparatalis (Walker, [1866]) (1)

Numbers

One named species of Mursa in America north of Mexico.(2)

Size

Wingspan average 19 mm. (3)

Identification

Range

Strays to Texas and Florida. (3), (4)

West Indies, Mexico to South America. (4)

Holotype: Haiti. (1)

Moth Photographers Group - large map with some distribution data.

Season

January to February, August, November to December. (3), (4)

Food

Larval host is Malva acuta. The species is not known to breed in the United States. (3), (4)

See Also

Compare on the pinned plates of Moth Photographers Group.

Print References

Boisduval & Guenée 1854. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Spécies Général des Lépidoptères. p. 87 (read online *French)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

Works Cited

1.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

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.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 15 January, 2013 - 4:39pm
Last updated 23 October, 2013 - 9:00pm

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