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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Scolecocampinae » Abablemma » Abablemma duomaculata - Hodges#8438.1 (Abablemma duomaculata)

Species Abablemma duomaculata - Hodges#8438.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Abablemma duomaculata - Hodges #8438.1 - Abablemma duomaculata - female Abablemma brimleyana - Hodges#8437 ? - Abablemma duomaculata 8438.1 – Abablemma duomaculata ? - Abablemma duomaculata 8438.1 – Abablemma duomaculata ? - Abablemma duomaculata 8438.1 – Abablemma duomaculata ? - Abablemma duomaculata Texas SE Gulf Coast - Abablemma duomaculata
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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 Scolecocampinae
Genus Abablemma
Species duomaculata (Abablemma duomaculata - Hodges#8438.1)
Hodges Number
8438.1
Other Common Names
Double-eyed Halfling
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Abablemma duomaculata (Barnes & Benjamin, 1925)
Phylogenetic sequence # 930653
Numbers
Identification
Wagner PDF linked below has description and photo of larva, adult. (1), (2)
Range
Texas, south to Mexico.
Habitat
Thorn scrub and palm woodlands of southern Texas. (1), (2)
Food
Wagner collected larvae on and reared from Physcia (lichen). (1), (2)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (3)
Wagner p. 87 (PDF) (2)
Works Cited
1.Larva of Abablemma (Noctuidae) with Notes on Algivory and Lichenivory in Macrolepidoptera
David L. Wagner, Jadranka Rota, Tim L. McCabe. 2008. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 101(1):40-52.
2.Ringed Boghaunter
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 18 July, 2013 - 1:23am
Last updated 17 August, 2014 - 8:28pm

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