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Species Palthis asopialis - Faint-spotted Palthis - Hodges#8398

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Faint-spotted Palthis Moth - Hodges #8398 - Palthis asopialis Faint-spotted Palthis - Hodges #8398 - Palthis asopialis Faint-spotted Palthis - Hodges#8398 - Palthis asopialis Moth - Palthis asopialis Palthis asopialis (Faint-Spotted Palthis) - Palthis asopialis Faint-spotted Palthis - Palthis asopialis ? - Palthis asopialis Moth - Palthis asopialis - female
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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 Herminiinae (Litter Moths)
Genus Palthis
Species asopialis (Faint-spotted Palthis - Hodges#8398)

Hodges Number

8398

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Palthis asopialis (Guenée, 1854)
Bertula insignalis Walker, 1859
Phylogenetic sequence # 930552

Numbers

one of two species found in America north of Mexico.(1)

Size

19-23 mm wingspan

Identification

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Range

Florida to Texas and north to Ontario

Food

Recorded food plants include Bidens species, and the leaves of beans, corn, and oak. Wikipedia

See Also

Palthis angulalis
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Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (2)
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (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.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 21 August, 2004 - 9:49am
Additional contributions by Jason D. Roberts, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Randy Hardy
Last updated 8 April, 2014 - 1:20pm

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