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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 » Globia » Capsula laeta - Hodges#9451 (Globia laeta)

Species Globia laeta - 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 Globia
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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