Moth Photographers Group – Cydosia aurivitta

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931732.71 – 8999 Cydosia aurivitta Grote & Robinson, 1868

Straight-lined Cydosia

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Distribution:	Suggested by Heppner as a species straying into, but not breeding in, Florida.
Description/ Field Marks:	Two forms occuring in both sexes: Form aurivitta has black forewings and broad reddish-orange transverse bands. Form imitella, described as a species referring to specimens from western Texas misidentified as nobilitella (Cramer, 1780) and separate from aurivitta, is similar to the latter but with white spots within the black spaces.
Synonymy:	aurivitta Grote & Robinson, 1868 (Cydosia) - MONA 1983: 8999; TL: Texas . imitella Stretch, 1873 (Cydosia); TL: Texas.

References (Caution: DNA barcoding at BOLD provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification; some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.)

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Grote, A.R. & C.T. Robinson, 1869. Descriptions of American Lepidoptera. - No. 4. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 2: 186.
Species Page at BugGuide.Net
Species Page at iNaturalist
Stretch, R.H., 1872. Illustrations of the Zygænidæ & Bombycidæ of North America, 1: 242-243.
Wagner, D.L., K.L. Keegan, B.B. Nall, V.G. Bugh, J. Rota, 2019. A tale of two caterpillars and reclassification of Cerathosia Smith and Cydosia Duncan [& Westwood] (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 73(1): 1-4.

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