Homorthodes furfurata
| Homorthodes furfurata | |
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| Northern Scurfy Quaker (Homorthodes furfurata), Windham County, US-VT, US | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Homorthodes |
| Species: | H. furfurata
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| Binomial name | |
| Homorthodes furfurata (Grote, 1874)
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Homorthodes furfurata, the northern scurfy Quaker moth or scurfy Quaker moth, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae (owlet moths).[1][2][3] It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1874 and is found in forest habitats in North America.[2] Its range extends across the continent, to south-eastern Canada, Massachusetts, New York, and Mississippi. In the west it ranges south to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
The wingspan is about 25 mm. Adults are on wing in summer.
The larvae feed on various hardwood species, including maples Acer and Prunus species, as well as Oemleria cerasiformis.[4]
The MONA or Hodges number for Homorthodes furfurata is 10532.[5][6]
Subspecies
[edit | edit source]- Homorthodes furfurata furfurata
- Homorthodes furfurata lindseyi (Benjamin, 1922) New Jersey
References
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- ^ Pacific Northwest Moths
- ^ Pohl, G.R., Patterson, B., & Pelham, J.P. (2016). Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Lafontaine, J. Donald & Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys, vol. 40, 1-239.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
External links
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