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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Apameini » Capsula » Capsula laeta - Hodges#9451 (Capsula laeta)

Species Capsula laeta - Hodges#9451

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 Apameini

Genus Capsula

Species laeta (Capsula laeta - Hodges#9451)

Hodges Number

9451

Other Common Names

Red sedge borer

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Capsula laeta (Morrison, 1875)

Archanara laeta (Morrison, 1875)

Globia laeta (Morrison, 1875)

Nonagria laeta Morrison, 1875

Phylogenetic sequence # 932441 (1)

Size

Morrison (1875) listed a wingspan of 37 mm.

Identification

Morrison (1875) original description as Nonagria laeta is online in the print references.

Range

Moth Photographers Group map (2)

Holotype from Hoboke, New Jersey.

Season

The main flight period appears to be August and September. (2)

Food

Poole (1989) reported larvae on Sparganium species (bur-reed). (3)

Print References

Morrison, H.K., 1875. Notes on the Noctuidæ. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 18: 120.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (5)

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.	Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum Catalogus (Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118) Part 1 & 2) Poole, R. W. 1989. CRC Press .

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 24 August, 2014 - 11:30am

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