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Metaxaglaea viatica

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Species of moth

Metaxaglaea viatica

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Metaxaglaea
Species:	M. viatica
Binomial name
*Metaxaglaea viatica* (Grote, 1874)
Synonyms
Orthosia viatica Grote, 1874

Metaxaglaea viatica, the roadside sallow moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

The wingspan is about 50 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from September to March.

The larvae feed on apple, crab apple, mountain ash and cherry.

References

Taxon identifiers
Metaxaglaea viatica	Wikidata: Q13515231 BAMONA: Metaxaglaea-viatica BioLib: 409845 BOLD: 330854 BugGuide: 92468 CoL: 6RDZW EoL: 478976 GBIF: 1786036 iNaturalist: 224995 IRMNG: 10474414 ITIS: 939525 LepIndex: 260254 MONA: 9944 NatureServe: 2.116691 NCBI: 2561499 Open Tree of Life: 3209404

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