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Ardices canescens
Female imago
Larva
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Ardices
Species:	A. canescens
Binomial name
Ardices canescens Butler, 1875
Synonyms
Spilosoma canescens (Butler, 1875)

Ardices canescens, the dark-spotted tiger moth or light ermine moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae that is found across most of Australia. It originally was included in the genus Spilosoma, but later the generic status of Ardices was proven.

The larvae are polyphagous, and are known to feed on Bidens pilosa, Helianthus annuus, Taraxacum officinale, Ipomoea batatas, Alcea rosea, Rosa odorata, Plantago, Ricinus communis and Tradescantia albiflora. The polyembryonic parasitoid wasp Copidosoma floridanum sometimes uses this species of caterpillar as a host.

References

1. Dubatolov, Vladimir V. (July 2005). "On the status of the Australian genus Ardices Walker, 1855 with the description of a new subgenus for A. curvata Donovan, 1805" (PDF). Atalanta. 36 (1/2): 173–179, 394–395 (colour plate 10). ISSN 0171-0079.
2. ^ H. A. Rose (1985). "The relationship between feeding specialization and host plants to aldrin epoxidase activities of midgut homogenates in larval Lepidoptera". Ecological Entomology. 10 (4): 455–467. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1985.tb00744.x.
3. Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley (October 30, 2008). "Spilosoma canescens". University of Technology, Sydney. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
4. John S. Noyes (1988). "Copidosoma truncatellum (Dalman) and C. floridanum (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae), two frequently misidentified polyembryonic parasitoids of caterpillars (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 13 (2): 197–204. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1988.tb00241.x.

External links

• Media related to Ardices canescens at Wikimedia Commons

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