Chytonix sensilis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Chytonix
- Species
- Chytonix sensilis
- Scientific Name
- Chytonix sensilis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Chytonix sensilis
Chytonix sensilis, the barrens chytonix, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae found in North America. It ranges from Quebec to Florida, and from Michigan to Texas. It was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1881 and is now listed as endangered in the US state of Connecticut.
The wingspan is 26–31 mm. Adults are on wing in late summer.
The larvae graze fungi off leaf litter, mostly off dead wood.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Chytonix albiplaga
- Chytonix albipuncta
- Chytonix albiquadrata
- Chytonix albonotata
- Chytonix brunnea
- Chytonix chlorophila
- Chytonix conjuncta
- Chytonix costimacula
- Chytonix cyanochlora
- Chytonix diehli
- Chytonix divesta
- Chytonix elegans
- Chytonix excurvata
- Chytonix griseorufa
- Chytonix hastata
- Chytonix intermixta
- Chytonix mniochroa
- Chytonix nadgani
- Chytonix palliatricula
- Chytonix pallidisca
- Chytonix perssoni
- Chytonix ptyophora
- Chytonix pyrrha
- Chytonix ruperti
- Chytonix sensilis
- Chytonix splendens
- Chytonix subalbonotata
- Chytonix tobiasmalmi
- Chytonix umbrifera
- Chytonix variegata
- Chytonix vermiculata