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Condica punctifera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Condica
Species:
C. punctifera
Binomial name
Condica punctifera
(Walker, [1857])[1]
Synonyms
  • Celaena punctifera Walker, [1857]
  • Perigea punctifera
  • Perigea plumbago Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
  • Condica plumbago
  • Celaena semifurca Walker, 1857

Condica punctifera is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1857. It is found in southern Florida and on the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.[2]

The wingspan is 27 mm.[3] Adults are brown with a large reniform spot which is often accented with gray white in the lower half. There is also a black basal dash. The hindwings are suffused with black brown.

Taxonomy

The species was incorrectly treated as a synonym of Condica concisa for some time.

References

  1. ^ Becker, Vitor O. (2002). "The Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) from Cuba described by Herrich-Schäffer and Gundlach in the Gundlach Collection, Havana" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 19 (2): 349–391. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000200006. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 29, 2013. Retrieved March 9, 2012.
  2. ^ Nearctica
  3. ^ "932001.00 – 9701.1 – Condica punctifera – (Walker, [1857])". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved December 2, 2018.