Ponometia exigua: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Ponometia
- Species
- Ponometia exigua
- Scientific Name
- Ponometia exigua
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ponometia exigua
Ponometia exigua is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793. It is found from Georgia, south to Florida and west to Texas. Outside of the United States it is found in Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, the Virgin Islands and Central America and South America down to Brazil.
It is a sexually dimorphic species.
The larvae feed on Erechtites hieraciifolia and Waltheria ovata.
...Ponometia exigua in languages:
- English
- Bicolored Bird-dropping Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Conochares elegantula
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- Ponometia clausula
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- Ponometia dorneri
- Ponometia elegantula
- Ponometia erastrioides
- Ponometia exigua
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- Ponometia libedis
- Ponometia macdunnoughi
- Ponometia megocula
- Ponometia nannodes
- Ponometia nigra
- Ponometia parvula
- Ponometia phecolisca
- Ponometia pulchra
- Ponometia semiflava
- Ponometia septuosa
- Ponometia sutrix
- Ponometia tortricina
- Ponometia tripartita
- Ponometia venustula
- Ponometia virginalis
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