Acronicta fallax
Topic: Biology
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Short description: Species of moth
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Acronicta |
| Species: | A. fallax
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| Acronicta fallax (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
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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.
The wingspan is about 34 mm. Adults are on wing from February to November in Florida.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Acronicta fallax Green Marvel Moth". NatureServe. 8 December 2017. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1013472/Acronicta_fallax.
- ↑ 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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