Cisthene juanita
| Cisthene juanita | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Cisthene |
| Species: | C. juanita
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| Binomial name | |
| Cisthene juanita Barnes & Benjamin, 1925
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Cisthene juanita is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1925 and is found in the United States in southern Arizona.[1][2]
The length of the forewings 9–11 mm. Adults are on wing from August to mid-October. They have been found during the day on flowers of Baccharis salicifolia.
The larvae feed on algae and lichens.[3]
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