Misplaced Pages

Double-eyed algibelle
Abablemma duomaculata, Texas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Phobolosia
Species:	P. duomaculata
Binomial name
Phobolosia duomaculata Barnes & Benjamin, 1925
Synonyms
Abablemma duomaculata Barnes & Benjamin, 1925

Phobolosia duomaculata, the double-eyed algibelle, is a moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1925 and it is found from southern Texas, south into Mexico.

There are probably multiple generations per year.

Larvae have been reared on Physcia species, but probably also feed on other lichens.

References

1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Abablemma duomaculata​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
2. ^ Savela, Markku. "Phobolosia duomaculata Barnes & Benjamin, 1925". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
3. Wagner, David L.; Schweitzer, Dale F.; Sullivan, J. Bolling & Reardon, Richard C. (2011). Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691150420.

• v
• t
• e

• Scolecocampinae
• Moths described in 1925
• Moths of North America
• Lepidoptera of Mexico
• Taxa named by William Barnes (entomologist)
• Taxa named by Foster Hendrickson Benjamin
• Erebidae stubs