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Species Metaxaglaea viatica - Roadside Sallow Moth - Hodges#9944

Metaxaglaea viatica - Roadside Sallow Moth - Metaxaglaea viatica

brown caterpillar on American Beech - Metaxaglaea viatica

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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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Xylenini

Subtribe Xylenina

Genus Metaxaglaea

Species viatica (Roadside Sallow Moth - Hodges#9944)

Hodges Number

9944

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Metaxaglaea viatica (Grote, 1874)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932598

Size

Wingsapn average 50 mm. (1)

Identification

Dull chestnut brown FW has slightly toothed, purplish AM & PM lines. Tips of the teeth on PM form a row of dots. Large orbicular and reniform spots are darker than ground color and partly outlined pale yellow. Reniform spot has blackish dot in inner half. ST is warm brown, edged pale yellow. (2)

HW gray with a pink fringe.

Food

Apple, crab apple, mountain ash and cherry (2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

BOLD Systems

Works Cited

1.	North American Moth Photographers Group

2.	Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 12 January, 2007 - 10:09am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Ken Childs
Last updated 1 January, 2014 - 12:31pm

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