Acronicta fallax

Short description: Species of moth

Acronicta fallax

Male
Female

Conservation status

Secure (NatureServe)[1]

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Noctuidae
Genus:  | Acronicta
Species:  |

A. fallax

Binomial name
Acronicta fallax

(Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)

Synonyms

* Moma fallax Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
* Agriopodes fallax
* Moma geminata Smith, 1903
* Agriopodes geminata

Acronicta fallax, the green marvel moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1854.[1][2] It is found in most of North America, from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and Manitoba south to Arizona and Florida.

Larva

The wingspan is about 34 mm. Adults are on wing from February to November in Florida.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Acronicta fallax Green Marvel Moth". NatureServe. 8 December 2017. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1013472/Acronicta_fallax.
2. ↑ Schmidt, Christian; Wagner, David; Zacharczenko, Brigette; Zahiri, Reza; Anweiler, Gary (2014). "Polyphyly of lichen-cryptic dagger moths: synonymy of Agriopodes Hampson and description of a new basal acronictine genus, Chloronycta, gen. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)". ZooKeys (421): 115–137. doi:10.3897/zookeys.421.7424. PMID 25061382. Bibcode: 2014ZooK..421..115S.

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