Amolita fessa, the feeble grass moth, is an owlet moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1874. It is found in North America.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Amolita |
Species: | A. fessa
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Binomial name | |
Amolita fessa Grote, 1874
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The MONA or Hodges number for Amolita fessa is 9818.[4]
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References
edit- ^ "Amolita fessa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Amolita fessa". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Amolita fessa species Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Amolita fessa". Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Further reading
edit- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 127–47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2015). "Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico, III". ZooKeys (527): 227–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.527.6151. PMC 4668890. PMID 26692790.
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.
External links
edit- Media related to Amolita fessa at Wikimedia Commons