| Cacotherapia unipuncta | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Cacotherapia |
| Species: | C. unipuncta |
| Binomial name | |
| Cacotherapia unipuncta | |
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Cacotherapia unipuncta is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia . It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1913, and is known from North America, [1] including Pennsylvania, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is paraphyletic with respect to butterflies and neither subordinate taxa are used modern classifications. Moths make up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.
The Arctiinae are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This subfamily includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths, which usually have bright colours, footmen, which are usually much drabber, lichen moths, and wasp moths. Many species have "hairy" caterpillars that are popularly known as woolly bears or woolly worms. The scientific name Arctiinae refers to this hairiness. Some species within the Arctiinae have the word "tussock"' in their common names because they have been misidentified as members of the Lymantriinae subfamily based on the characteristics of the larvae.
The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable dispute. These are generally very small moths with narrow, fringed wings. The larvae of most species feed internally on various parts of their host plants, sometimes causing galls. Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga) is a host plant common to many species of the family, particularly of the genus Chionodes, which as a result is more diverse in North America than usual for Gelechioidea.
The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyralidae as a subfamily, making the combined group one of the largest families in the Lepidoptera. The latest review by Eugene G. Munroe and Maria Alma Solis retain the Crambidae as a full family of Pyraloidea.
The Galleriinae are a subfamily of snout moths and occur essentially worldwide, in some cases aided by involuntary introduction by humans. This subfamily includes the wax moths, whose caterpillars (waxworms) are bred on a commercial scale as food for pets and as fishing bait; in the wild, these and other species of Galleriinae may also be harmful to humans as pests.
Cacotherapia is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1904 and is known from the United States, Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama.
Cacotherapia angulalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918 and is known from the US state of California.
Cacotherapia bilinealis is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918 and is known from the US state of Arizona.
Cacotherapia demeridalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by Schaus in 1924, and is known from Guatemala.
Cacotherapia flexilinealis is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1905 and is known from the US state of Texas.
Cacotherapia interalbicalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by Ragonot in 1891, from Sonora, Mexico. It is also found in the southern United States.
Cacotherapia lecerfialis is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1925 and is known from the US state of California.
Cacotherapia leucocope is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1917 and is known from the US state of Colorado.
Cacotherapia nigrocinereella is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by George Duryea Hulst in 1900 and is known from the US state of Texas.
Cacotherapia poecilostigma is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1914, and is known from Panama.
Cacotherapia ponda is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1907 and is known from the US state of California.
Cacotherapia unicoloralis is a species of snout moth in the genus Cacotherapia. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1913 and is known from the US state of Florida.
A MONA number, or Hodges number after Ronald W. Hodges, is part of a numbering system for North American moths found north of Mexico in the Continental United States and Canada, as well as the island of Greenland. Introduced in 1983 by Hodges through the publication of Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico, the system began an ongoing numeration process in order to compile a list of the over 12,000 moths of North America north of Mexico. The system numbers moths within the same family close together for identification purposes. For example, the species Epimartyria auricrinella begins the numbering system at 0001 while Epimartyria pardella is numbered 0002.
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