Virbia aurantiaca: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Virbia
- Species
- Virbia aurantiaca
- Scientific Name
- Virbia aurantiaca
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Virbia aurantiaca
Virbia aurantiaca, the orange holomelina, is a moth species of the family Erebidae found in North America. In the east it has been recorded from Manitoba and Nova Scotia, south along the eastern seaboard to Cordoba in Mexico. It has also been recorded from Texas, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota.
The length of the forewings is about 10 mm for males and 9.7 mm for females.
Larvae have been reared on dandelion and plantain species.
...Virbia aurantiaca in languages:
- English
- Orange Virbia
- English
- Orange Holomelina
- English
- Orange Virbia Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Holomelina heros
- Holomelina latus
- Holomelina pallicornis
- Virbia affinis
- Virbia ampla
- Virbia arbela
- Virbia aurantiaca
- Virbia birchi
- Virbia brevilinea
- Virbia catama
- Virbia cetes
- Virbia costata
- Virbia cyana
- Virbia disparilis
- Virbia distincta
- Virbia divisa
- Virbia dotata
- Virbia egaca
- Virbia elisca
- Virbia endomelaena
- Virbia endophaea
- Virbia epione
- Virbia erytrina
- Virbia esula
- Virbia fasciata
- Virbia fergusoni
- Virbia feronia
- Virbia ferruginosa
- Virbia flavifurca
- Virbia flemmingi
- Virbia fluminea
- Virbia fragilis
- Virbia heros
- Virbia hypophaea
- Virbia immaculata
- Virbia insularis
- Virbia inversa
- Virbia laeta
- Virbia lamae
- Virbia latus
- Virbia lehmanni
- Virbia loti
- Virbia lunulata
- Virbia luteilinea
- Virbia major
- Virbia marginata
- Virbia mathani
- Virbia medarda
- Virbia mentiens
- Virbia metazonata
- Virbia minuta
- Virbia mirma
- Virbia nigricans
- Virbia opella
- Virbia orola
- Virbia ostenta
- Virbia ovata
- Virbia pallicornis
- Virbia palmeri
- Virbia pamphylia
- Virbia parva
- Virbia phalangia
- Virbia polyphron
- Virbia pomponia
- Virbia porioni
- Virbia punctata
- Virbia rindgei
- Virbia rogersi
- Virbia rosenbergi
- Virbia rotundata
- Virbia rubicundaria
- Virbia sanguicollis
- Virbia satara
- Virbia schadei
- Virbia semirosea
- Virbia strigata
- Virbia subapicalis
- Virbia tenuicincta
- Virbia thersites
- Virbia trigonifera
- Virbia underwoodi
- Virbia varians
- Virbia xanthopleura
- Virbia zonata