Virbia rubicundaria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Virbia
- Species
- Virbia rubicundaria
- Scientific Name
- Virbia rubicundaria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Virbia rubicundaria
Virbia rubicundaria, the ruddy holomelina, black-banded holomelina or least holomelina, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is found from Georgia and Florida, along the Gulf Coast to eastern Texas.
The length of the forewings is about 8.9 mm for males and 8.7 mm for females. There are multiple generations per year with adults on wing year-round.
Larvae have been reared on dandelion species and Lactuca floridana.
...Virbia rubicundaria in languages:
- English
- Ruddy Holomelina
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Holomelina heros
- Holomelina latus
- Holomelina pallicornis
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- 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
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