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Species Epidromia rotundata - Hodges#8585.3

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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 Eulepidotinae
Genus Epidromia
Species rotundata (Epidromia rotundata - Hodges#8585.3)
Hodges Number
8585.3
Other Common Names
Ferguson's Epidromia Moth
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Epidromia rotundata (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
synonym: Epidromia fergusoni Solis, 1986.
Phylogenetic sequence # 930977
Numbers
Three Epidromia species are found in America north of Mexico.(1)
Size
Wingspan 40-45 mm.
Identification
Adult: forewing brown with purplish tint (which may disappear with age); median area with large dark triangular patch in male (patch reduced or absent in female); patch begins near base of AM line, and extends to PM line near costa; reniform spot dark gray to black; AM line dark, scalloped or wavy; PM line straight for most of length, curving basally near costa, and bordered distally by pale shading; some blackish shading in subterminal area, especially near apex; outer margin slightly falcate or undulate with pointed apex; hindwing similar in color and pattern to forewing, but outer margin rounded
Range
Florida and Georgia; records from New York, New Mexico, and Cuba are suspect. (2)
Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.
Season
adults fly from April to September
See Also
Epidromia pannosa forewing lacks purplish tint in fresh specimens, its outer margin is straight (not falcate or undulate), the dark median patch in males is less extensive and shaped differently, and the hindwing outer margin in males is slightly angulate or pointed (not rounded, as in fergusoni)
(see pinned adult images of E. pannosa (1, 2) by Bruce Walsh, and an image of a pinned male by Pierre Zagatti)
Print References
Herrich-Schäffer, 1869. Die Schmetterlinge der Insel Cuba. Correspondenz-blatt des Zoologisch-mineralogischen Vereins in Regensburg, 23: 159.
Solis, 1986: 8-19. (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.Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida
3.A new species of Epidromia (Noctuidae) from Florida
M. Alma Solis. 1986. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 40(1): 8-19 .
4.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems