Biology:Callopistria floridensis
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Callopistria |
| Species: | C. floridensis
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| Callopistria floridensis (Guenée, 1852)
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Callopistria floridensis, the Florida fern moth or Florida fern caterpillar, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from North America (including Alabama, California , Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, New Brunswick, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas ),[1] south through the Caribbean (including Cuba),[2] Mexico and Central America (including Costa Rica) to Ecuador.[3]
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. They are highly variable in coloration, ranging from green to brown, black or reddish. It is an occasional pest in greenhouses. The larvae were recently discovered to have high levels of arsenic when feeding on P. vittata,[4] and are the only known terrestrial animal to accumulate arsenic.[5]
References
- ↑ "932190.00 – 9630 – Callopistria floridensis – Florida Fern Moth – (Guenée, 1852)". Mississippi State University. http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=9630. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Becker, Vitor O. (2002). "The Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) from Cuba described by Herrich-Schäffer and Gundlach in the Gundlach Collection, Havana". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 19 (2): 349–391. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000200006. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbzool/v19n2/v19n2a06.pdf.
- ↑ "Taxonomy Browser: Callopistria floridensis". http://www.boldsystems.org/views/taxbrowser.php?taxid=33758. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Jaffe, Benjamin D.; Guédot, Christelle; Ketterer, Michael; Kok-Yokomi, Moh Leng; Leibee, Gary L. (2019-02-27). "A caterpillar (Callopistria floridensis G. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)) accumulates arsenic from an arsenic-hyperaccumulating fern (Pteris vittata L.)". Ecological Entomology 44 (4): 480–487. doi:10.1111/een.12724. ISSN 0307-6946.
- ↑ Glover, Chris N.; Hogstrand, Christer; Thompson, E. David (2018-06-20). "From sea squirts to squirrelfish: facultative trace element hyperaccumulation in animals". Metallomics 10 (6): 777–793. doi:10.1039/C8MT00078F. ISSN 1756-591X. PMID 29850752. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/from-sea-squirts-to-squirrelfish(ff2bb012-ba01-4126-bff8-309c6f7a2df9).html.
Wikidata ☰ Q5022884 entry
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