Trichordestra legitima Grote, 1864 is a animal in the Noctuidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Trichordestra legitima Grote, 1864

Trichordestra legitima Grote, 1864

Trichordestra legitima, the striped garden caterpillar moth, is a Noctuidae moth found across eastern North America.

Family
Genus
Trichordestra
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Trichordestra legitima Grote, 1864

Trichordestra legitima, commonly called the striped garden caterpillar moth, is a moth species belonging to the family Noctuidae. This species was first formally described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1864. It is distributed across eastern North America, with a range extending from Newfoundland to Florida in the east, west to Texas, and north to Saskatchewan.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Noctuidae Trichordestra

More from Noctuidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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