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Species Melipotis contorta - Hodges#8605

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8605 - Melipotis contorta
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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 Melipotini
Genus Melipotis
Species contorta (Melipotis contorta - Hodges#8605)

Hodges Number

8605

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Melipotis contorta (Guenée, 1852)
Bolina contorta Guenée, 1852
Phylogenetic sequence # 930876

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed thirteen species of the genus Melipotis in America north of Mexico. (1)(2)

Identification

Range

Florida to Texas; West Indies, Mexico. (3)

Season

Heppner (2003) reported adults in January to February, May, July and December in Florida. (3)

Food

Heppner (2003) reported the larval host plant as unknown. (3)

Internet References

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

Works Cited

1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. 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.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 4 June, 2013 - 1:40am
Last updated 6 January, 2014 - 3:14pm

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