Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Noctuoidea Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae | |
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Similar Dysschema leucophaea, Dysschema thetis, Composia fidelissima, Gnophaela vermiculata, Dysschema | ||
Phaloesia saucia, the saucy beauty moth or saucy beauty, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States to Venezuela.
Adults are on wing nearly year round. Adults have been observed feeding on nectar from Chromolaena odorata, Aloysia gratissima and Sabal mexicana. The larvae feed on Tournefortia species, including Tournefortia volubilis.
Taxonomy
Phaloesia fulvicollis was previously wrongly listed as a synonym of Gnophaela aequinoctialis.
References
Phaloesia saucia Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA