Leucania Linda
''Orthodes linda'', the linda wainscot moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, South Carolina, Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ..., West Virginia and Wisconsin. The wingspan is about 34 mm. Adults are mainly on wing from May to October. Linda is a lovely moth References

Moths described in 1952 Leucania {{Mythimnini-stub ...
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Moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making 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. Differences between butterflies and moths While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.Scoble, MJ 1995. The Lepidoptera: Form, function and diversity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 404 p. Although the rules for distinguishing moths from butterflies are not well establishe ...
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