Acronicta fallax
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Acronicta fallax (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)[1]
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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.
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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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