Cucullia asteroides

Cucullia asteroides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Cucullia
Species:	C. asteroides
Binomial name
Cucullia asteroides Guenée, 1852

Caterpillar on Euthamia flower

Cucullia asteroides, known generally as the goldenrod hooded owlet or asteroid moth, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae (the owlet moths).[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.[1]

The MONA or Hodges number for Cucullia asteroides is 10200.[5]

Biology

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Asteroid larvae on goldenrod

References

1. "Cucullia asteroides report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
2. "Cucullia asteroides species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
3. "Cucullia asteroides". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
4. "Cucullia asteroides species information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
5. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Cucullia asteroides". Retrieved 2018-05-06.

Further reading

• 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

• Media related to Cucullia asteroides at Wikimedia Commons