Plusiodonta compressipalpis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Plusiodonta
- Species
- Plusiodonta compressipalpis
- Scientific Name
- Plusiodonta compressipalpis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Plusiodonta compressipalpis
Plusiodonta compressipalpis, the moonseed moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found in North America from Minnesota, extreme southern Canada and Connecticut, south to northern Florida and Texas.
The wingspan is 25–33 mm. Adults are on wing from May to September. There are two generations over much of east.
The larvae feed on Menispermum species and snailseed vines.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Plusiodonta aborta
- Plusiodonta achalcea
- Plusiodonta amado
- Plusiodonta arctipennis
- Plusiodonta auripicta
- Plusiodonta basirhabdota
- Plusiodonta calcaurea
- Plusiodonta casta
- Plusiodonta chalcomera
- Plusiodonta clavifera
- Plusiodonta cobaltina
- Plusiodonta coelonota
- Plusiodonta commoda
- Plusiodonta compressipalpis
- Plusiodonta cupristria
- Plusiodonta dimorpha
- Plusiodonta effulgens
- Plusiodonta euchalcia
- Plusiodonta excavata
- Plusiodonta gueneei
- Plusiodonta incitans
- Plusiodonta ionochrota
- Plusiodonta macra
- Plusiodonta malagasy
- Plusiodonta megista
- Plusiodonta miranda
- Plusiodonta multicolora
- Plusiodonta natalensis
- Plusiodonta nictites
- Plusiodonta nitissima
- Plusiodonta pasi
- Plusiodonta ramlii
- Plusiodonta repellens
- Plusiodonta speciosissima
- Plusiodonta stimulans
- Plusiodonta stumpfi
- Plusiodonta theresae
- Plusiodonta thomae
- Plusiodonta tominagaorum
- Plusiodonta wahlbergi
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