Callopistria floridensis

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Common Names

Description

Family Noctuidae

'The Noctuids are members of the Superfamily Noctuoidea. Worldwide in distribution, this family is the largest in the Lepidoptera and has approximately 20,000 species. About 2,900 of these are found in North America, and there is wide variation in appearance and behavior. Most moths are gray to brown in color and have line or spots on their wings. Some species are brightly colored . They are small to large in size, and most species are medium-sized with wingspans 2 - 4.5 cm. When at rest, adults of most species hold their wings above their bodies like a roof. Noctuids are typically nocturnal , though some species are diurnal . Most larvae feed on plant foliage , dead leaves, lichens, and fungi; many are serious forest pests. Some species are leaf miners, others are stem- or leaf-borers, and still others feed at night on plant shoots. Noctuid moths pupate in cells in soil, in plant cavities, or in silk cocoons .

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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Provisionally Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Beccaloni G.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Callopistria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 164 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

C. aethiops · C. aetnea · C. albistella · C. albistriga · C. albivitta · C. albolineola · C. albomacula · C. aluensis · C. angustata · C. anthracita · C. antithetica · C. apicescripta · C. argentata · C. argyrosema · C. argyrosemastis · C. argyrosticta · C. batanga · C. benguellae · C. bergeri · C. bernei · C. cabara · C. cariei · C. carmioli · C. carnepicta · C. centrimacula · C. chera · C. chloriza · C. chlorocroa · C. clava · C. coelisigna · C. complicata · C. concinna · C. consentanea · C. cordata (Silver-Spotted Fern Moth) · C. cornucopiae · C. cristata · C. cyanopera · C. cyclopis · C. dapsilis · C. dascia · C. deflexusa · C. delicata · C. detegens · C. dimorpha · C. doleschalli · C. duda · C. duplicans · C. duplicans(Walker · C. duplicilinea · C. elaeastis · C. elegantulus · C. emiliusalis · C. equatorialis · C. exotica · C. falcata · C. ferruginea · C. fimbripes · C. flabellum · C. flavitincta · C. flavorosea · C. floridensis (Florida Callopistria Moth) · C. formosissimalis · C. ganga · C. granitosa (Granitosa Fern Moth) · C. grassei · C. guttulalis · C. imparata · C. indica · C. insularis · C. intermissa · C. jamaicensis · C. japonibia · C. juventina · C. juventina(Stoll · C. lagopus · C. latreillei · C. leucobasis · C. leucotoma · C. ludovici · C. maillardi · C. malagasy · C. manta · C. matilei · C. meridionalis (Llenette) · C. meridionalis rotumensis · C. mexicana · C. microptera · C. minor · C. minuta · C. miosticta · C. miracula · C. miranda · C. mollissima (Callopistria Mollissima) · C. montana · C. nana · C. nannodes · C. natalensis · C. nauticorum · C. nephrosticta · C. nephrostictoides

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Further Reading

• A catalogue, bibliographical and synonymical, of the species of moths of the lepidopterous superfamily Noctuidæ found in boreal America. with critical notes, by John B. Smith Washington, Govt. print. off., 1893. ENG url p. 309.
• Annual report / Entomological Society of Ontario. Toronto, The Society. ENG url p. 143, p. 173.
• Bibliographia zoologica. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1896-1934. MUL url p. 253.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 309.
• Catalog of hymenoptera in America north of Mexico / prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein [et al.]. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979- ENG url p. 2511.
• Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia[Entomological Rooms of the Academy of Natural Sciences] ENG url p. 104, p. 167.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. ENG url p. 120, p. 219, p. 232, p. 358, p. 934.
• Journal of economic entomology. [College Park, Md., etc.]Entomological Society of America [etc.] ENG url p. 183, p. 511.
• Journal of the New York Entomological Society. Lawrence, Kan.: Allen Press [etc.] ENG url p. 147, p. 150, p. 256, p. 316, p. 33.
• Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 563.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, ENG url p. 31.
• The Canadian entomologist. Ottawa [etc.]Entomological Society of Canada [etc.] ENG url p. 141, p. 22, p. 289, p. 33, p. 411.
• The moth book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America, by W.J. Holland with forty-eight plates in color photography, and numerous illustrations in the text, reproducing specimens in the collection of the author, and in various pu New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1903. ENG url p. 252.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 16, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• Opler, Paul A., Kelly Lotts, and Thomas Naberhaus, coordinators. 2009. Butterflies and Moths of North America. Bozeman, MT: Big Sky Institute. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/ (Version of April 17, 2009).

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 16, 2008:

• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2603748
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Lep-263767.0
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 117380
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 442622

Footnotes

1. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxonomy?f=34&sci=Noctuidae&com=Owlet Moths, Miller Moths [back]

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