Callopistria floridensis

TaxID: 741413

Basic Information

Callopistria floridensis

Florida Callopistria Moth, Florida Fern Moth

Callopistria floridensis, the Florida fern moth or Florida fern caterpillar, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America (including Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, New Brunswick, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas), south through the Caribbean (including Cuba), Mexico and Central America (including Costa Rica) to Ecuador. The wingspan is about 29 mm (1.1 in). Adults are on wing year round in Florida and the tropics. The larvae feed on various ferns, including Nephrolepis exaltata and Pteris vittata. It is an occasional pest in greenhouses. The larvae were recently discovered to have high levels of arsenic when feeding on P. vittata, and are the only known terrestrial animal to accumulate arsenic.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Noctuidae

Callopistria

floridensis

nan

Photos (5 photos)

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Morphological Features

Adult male with filiform antennae, the basal 26 segments widened; legs with long, abundant hairs, the midlegs bearing a tuft covering two spiniform processes on the inner distal part of the tibia. Female with darker brown wings than male. Larva polymorphic in color: entirely green; green with a white band above the spiracle and a black band below the spiracle; entirely dark brown to black; or dark brown to black with a white band above the spiracle. Larval color may change from the third instar onward.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult/Larva Source Type: Scholarly article
Citation:

FRANCISCO J. POSADA-F., ALFREDO SALDARRIAGA-V.. 1985. BIOLOGIA, HÁBITOS Y POLIMORFISMO LARVAL DE Callopistria floridensis (Guenée) (LEPIDOPTERA:NOCTUIDAE), LARVA DE LOS HELECHOS. Revista Colombiana de Entomología

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Mexico Quarantine pests —

Distribution (27 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Argentina Present —
Belgium Present —
Bermuda Present —
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Present —
Brazil Present —
Canada Present —
Colombia Present —
Costa Rica Present —
Cuba Present —
Dominica Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (356 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
SURL169-21 BOLD:AAA4051 COI-5P 658 Suriname 2019-07-25 5.425, -55.192
RDNMI049-10 BOLD:AAA4051 COI-5P 658 United States 2009-10-20 -
RDNMH1021-09 BOLD:AAA4051 COI-5P 658 United States 2006-09-08 31.2504, -99.2506
PRMAR737-21 BOLD:AAA4051 COI-5P 658 Puerto Rico 2017-12-17 18.322, -65.819
PLYDJ010-21 BOLD:AAA4051 COI-5P 655 Costa Rica 2020-07-16 10.763, -85.334
PLLBJ007-20 BOLD:AAA4051 COI-5P 653 Costa Rica 2016-07-14 10.7631, -85.3344
PLLBI024-20 BOLD:AAA4051 COI-5P 653 Costa Rica 2016-07-07 10.7631, -85.3344
PLLBH001-20 BOLD:AAA4051 COI-5P 653 Costa Rica 2016-06-30 10.7631, -85.3344
PLLBF172-20 BOLD:AAA4051 COI-5P 654 Costa Rica 2016-06-16 10.7631, -85.3344
PLLBF162-20 BOLD:AAA4051 COI-5P 641 Costa Rica 2016-06-16 10.7631, -85.3344
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Literature