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Species Gonodonta sicheas - Hodges#8537

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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 Calpinae (Fruit-piercing Moths)
Tribe Calpini
Genus Gonodonta
Species sicheas (Gonodonta sicheas - Hodges#8537)

Hodges Number

8537

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gonodonta sicheas (Cramer, [1777])
Phylogenetic sequence # 930613

Numbers

There are nine species of the genus Gonodonta listed for America, north of Mexico. (1)

Size

Wingspan is about 44 mm.

Range

Texas, Florida; Mexico to South America.

Season

Adults are most common in May, and August to November.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)

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.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 13 July, 2013 - 2:35pm

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