Cobubatha metaspilaris

Cobubatha metaspilaris is a moth of the family Noctuidae, described by Francis Walker in 1863.[2] It is found in the southern United States (from Florida to Texas),[3][4] British Virgin Islands and Cuba.[5]

Cobubatha metaspilaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Genus:
Cobubatha
Species:
C. metaspilaris
Binomial name
Cobubatha metaspilaris
(Walker, 1863) [1]
Synonyms
  • Erastria minima Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
  • Agrophila signiferana Walker, 1865
  • Cobubatha punctifinis Hampson, 1910

The wingspan is about 14 mm.

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cobubatha metaspilaris". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. p. 126. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  3. "931272 – 9012 – Cobubatha metaspilaris – Walker, 1863". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi Entomological Museum at the Mississippi State University. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  4. Savela, Markku. "Cobubatha metaspilaris Walker, 1863". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  5. 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 from the original (PDF) on April 29, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2012.


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