Species Gonodonta sinaldus - Hodges#8538

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · See Also · Internet References

Gonodonta at bait, dorsal view - Gonodonta sinaldus

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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 sinaldus (Gonodonta sinaldus - Hodges#8538)

Hodges Number

8538

Other Common Names

Moonseed Fruitpiercer, Moonseed Fruit Piercer

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gonodonta sinaldus Guenée, 1852

Identification

Adult: forewing has large dark brown to blackish patch with smoothly curved distal edge; lighter grayish-brown shading at base of wing, along costa, beyond PM line, and in small semicircular patch along inner margin; whitish line parallels costa before curving inward near base; hindwing gray distally, yellow or orangish basally

Range

Common from the Mexican border north to Concan in the Texas Hill Country; sporadic records north to at least Dallas; south at least to Trinidad and Columbia.

See Also

Citrus Fruit-piercer (Gonodonta nutrix) forewing has broad pale strip along costa; species occurs in Florida

Gonodonta pyrgo forewing has pale strip along costa, and lacks distinctly-outlined dark patch (link updated to BugGuide page)

Gonodonta indentata forewing patch has irregular or jagged distal edge; species has not yet been recorded north of Mexico (link updated to iNaturalist)

Internet References

108 pinned adult images showing dorsal and ventral views of 54 specimens from Costa Rica (All-Leps)

Comments from Charles Bordelon on TX-Butterfly listserv

pinned adult image and distribution (Matthew Barnes, Moths of Belize)

presence in Texas; list (Dale Clark, Moths of Dallas County, Texas)

Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 28 October, 2006 - 3:54pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Robin McLeod
Last updated 12 March, 2021 - 1:06pm

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