Neadysgonia similis (Guenée) Sullivan, 2010

Sullivan, J. Bolling, 2010, A new genus and species for Dysgonia (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Erebinae) from Southeastern United States, ZooKeys 39 (39), pp. 85-97 : 89

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.39.434

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5734552B-0B4A-4F28-823F-272011A82376

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3788636

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E81B72-DC07-FFA0-0DE3-FE9BFCA86FCB

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Plazi

scientific name

Neadysgonia similis (Guenée)
status

comb. nov.

Neadysgonia similis (Guenée) , comb. n.

Figs 1, 2, 7a, b, 11

Ophiusa smithii Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852: 267 .

Type material. This species was described from an unknown number of specimens from an unknown locality. Th e short description is adequate to distinguish the species. Th e location of any types is unknown (not in BMNH, MNHN, or USNM).

Diagnosis. Neadysgonia similis can be recognized by the lack of well-defined triangles from the PM line and no dark shading basal of the AM line. Two forms occur, one devoid of any well-defined pattern between the AM and PM lines. In the male genitalia the projection from the tegumen creates a square shape and the costal projection of the valva ends in a hammerhead. In the female the lodix is rectangular.

Distribution and biology. Neadysgonia similis has been recorded from North Carolina to Florida. Th e food plant occurs in Alabama and Mississippi and the moth could be expected from these areas as well.

A larva of N. similis was collected from Loblolly Bay ( Gordonia lasianthus (L.) ( Theaceae )) by Richard Broadwell during the course of a study to determine the nontarget effects of Bacillus treatments to eradicate a Gypsy moth infestation near Wilmington, N.C. ( Hall et al. 1999). I identified the emergent moth as Neadysgonia similis and have subsequently found additional larvae and reared larvae from eggs from a captive female; all readily fed to maturity on Loblolly Bay. It is a common plant on the frequently burned coastal plain savannas, but both the adults and larvae are relatively uncommon. Th e moth is multiple brooded (April to September).

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Neadysgonia

Loc

Neadysgonia similis (Guenée)

Sullivan, J. Bolling 2010
2010
Loc

Ophiusa smithii Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852: 267

Guenee A 1852: 267
1852
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