Exelastis montischristi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pterophoridae
- Genus
- Exelastis
- Species
- Exelastis montischristi
- Scientific Name
- Exelastis montischristi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Exelastis montischristi
Exelastis montischristi is a species of moth in the genus Exelastis known from Hispaniola, Ecuador, Grenada, Jamaica, Martinique, the Virgin Islands, Florida and Texas. It has also been recorded from Tanzania.
Adults take flight in January, July and August, and have a wingspan of about 16 millimetres.
Its host plant is Rhynchosia minima.
...Exelastis montischristi in languages:
- English
- Monte Christi Plume Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Exelastis atomosa
- Exelastis bergeri
- Exelastis boireaui
- Exelastis caroli
- Exelastis cervinicolor
- Exelastis crepuscularis
- Exelastis crudipennis
- Exelastis dowi
- Exelastis ebalensis
- Exelastis hulstaerti
- Exelastis luqueti
- Exelastis montischristi
- Exelastis pavidus
- Exelastis phlyctaenias
- Exelastis pilum
- Exelastis pumilio
- Exelastis rhynchosiae
- Exelastis robinsoni
- Exelastis tenax
- Exelastis viettei
- Exelastis vuattouxi

























