Acronicta fallax

Acronicta fallax
	Male
	Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Acronicta
Species:	A. fallax
Binomial name
	Acronicta fallax; (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
Synonyms
	Moma fallax Herrich-Schäffer, 1854; Agriopodes fallax; Moma geminata Smith, 1903; Agriopodes geminata;

Acronicta fallax (green marvel) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in most of North America, from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and Manitoba south to Arizona and Florida.

The wingspan is about 34 mm. Adults are on wing from February to November in Florida.

The larvae feed on Viburnum species. They feed on the leaf underside. Full-grown larvae are bright lime to yellowish green with a whitish middorsal and somewhat broader subdorsal stripe.

References

^ Schmidt, B.C. et al. 2014: Polyphyly of lichen-cryptic dagger moths: synonymy of Agriopodes Hampson and description of a new basal acronictine genus, Chloronycta, gen. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). ZooKeys, 421: 115-137. doi:10.3897/zookeys.421.7424

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[1] Schmidt, B.C. et al. 2014: Polyphyly of lichen-cryptic dagger moths: synonymy of Agriopodes Hampson and description of a new basal acronictine genus, Chloronycta, gen. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). ZooKeys, 421: 115-137. doi:10.3897/zookeys.421.7424

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