Doryodes spadaria
| Doryodes spadaria | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Doryodes |
| Species: | D. spadaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Doryodes spadaria Guenee, 1857[1] | |
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Doryodes spadaria, the Dull Doryodes Moth, is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from coastal Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.[2] The habitat consists of salt marshes.[3]
The wingspan is 28-32 mm. The forewing ground color in males varies from whitish buff to yellow buff with grey streaks. The longitudinal dark stripe is dark brown and conspicuously wider than in Doryodes bistrialis the ground color in females averages paler than that of males and the wings and dark longitudinal stripe are narrower.[4] Adults are on wing year round.
The larvae feed on Spartina species.[5]
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