Callopistria floridensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Callopistria
Species:
C. floridensis
Binomial name
Callopistria floridensis
(Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Eriopus elegantulus Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
  • Callopistria elegantula
  • Callopistria strena Grote, 1895

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]

Damage
Larvae

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

  1. ↑ "932190.00 – 9630 – Callopistria floridensis – Florida Fern Moth – (Guenée, 1852)". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ Becker, Vitor O. (2002). "The Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) from Cuba described by Herrich-Schäffer and Gundlach in the Gundlach Collection, Havana" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 19 (2): 349–391. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000200006. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 29, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Taxonomy Browser: Callopistria floridensis". Barcode of Life Data System. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.


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