Callopistria floridensis

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

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: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Callopistria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. cordata (Silver-Spotted Fern Moth) · C. floridensis (Florida Fern Caterpillar) · C. granitosa (Granitosa Fern Moth) · C. meridionalis (Llenette) · C. mollissima (Callopistria Mollissima)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue, bibliographical and synonymical, of the species of moths of the lepidopterous superfamily Noctuid found in boreal America. with critical notes, by John B. Smith. .. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1893. url p. 309.
• Annual report / Entomological Society of Ontario. Toronto, The Society. url p. 143, p. 173.
• Archivos. Rio de JaneiroImprensa Nacional url p. 151.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 309.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 143, p. 64.
• 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- url p. 2511.
• Cooperative economic insect report. Hyattsville, MD. [etc.]Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs Animal and Plant Health Service. url p. 12, p. 18, p. 7.
• 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] url p. 104, p. 104, p. 167.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 120, p. 219, p. 232, p. 358, p. 934.
• Florists' review Chicago: Florists' Pub. Co. url , , .
• Greenhouse pests; a manual of practice in the control of insects and other pests attacking ornamental plants and flowers grown under glass in Illinois. Urbana, 1930. url p. 56.
• Index to the literature of American economic entomology. Melrose Highlands, Mass. [etc.], American Association of Economic Entomologists [etc.], 1917-62. url p. 147, p. 58, p. 64.
• Journal of economic entomology. [College Park, Md., etc.]Entomological Society of America [etc.] url p. 183, p. 511.
• Journal of the New York Entomological Society. Lawrence, Kan.: Allen Press [etc.] url p. 147, p. 150, p. 256, p. 316, p. 33.
• Memoirs of the American Entomological Society. Philadelphia, American Entomological Society, 1916- url p. 791.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 31.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 150, p. 173, p. 450.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 518.
• Proceedings of the annual convention of the society of American Florists. Boston [etc.]Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturalists. url p. 38.
• The American florist: a weekly journal for the trade. Chicago: American Florist Company, [1885-1931] url p. 338, p. 434.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 172, p. 75.
• The Canadian entomologist. Ottawa [etc.]Entomological Society of Canada [etc.] url , p. 141, p. 141, p. 22, p. 22, p. 289, p. 33, p. 33, p. 411, p. 411, p. 432.
• The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. s.l., s.n. url p. 247.
• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng., etc.: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, etc. url p. 451, p. 573.
• The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. By W.J. Holland. .. With 48 plates in color-photography, reproductions of butterflies in the author's collection, and many text illustrations presenting most of the species found in the United States. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914. url , .
• The moth book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America / by W.J. Holland. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1915. url p. 252.
• The moth book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America. .. With forty-eight plates in color photography and numerous illustrations in the text, reproducing specimens in the collection of the author, and in various public and private collections. 1916 Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & company, 1916. url p. 252, explanation of plate XXIX.
• Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. London, The Society. url p. 247.
• Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1895-1920. url p. 578.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 16, 2008:

• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• 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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