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Location: Recife-PE, Brazil.
Mouralia tinctoides (Guenée, 1852)
Taxonomy:
Animals Kingdom Animalia
Arthropods Phylum Arthropoda
Hexapods Subphylum Hexapoda
Insetos Class Insecta
Winged and Once-winged Insects Subclass Pterygota
Butterflies and Moths Order Lepidoptera
Owlet Moths and Allies Superfamily Noctuoidea
, and Allies Family Noctuidae
Plusiine Looper Moths Subfamily Plusiinae
Tribe Abrostolini
Genus Mouralia
Mouralia tinctoides
Mouralia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae, consisting of only one species Mouralia tinctoides. It is found from Florida to South-east Texas, Georgia, Southern California, the Antilles, from Mexico through Brazil to Northern Argentina and in Peru.
The wingspan is about 44 mm.
The larvae feed on Tradescantia fluminensis and Zebrina pendula.
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