Doryodes latistriga

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Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Euclidiini
Genus: Doryodes
Species: D. latistriga
Binomial name
Doryodes latistriga
Sullivan & Lafontaine, 2015

Doryodes latistriga is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in tidal creeks and salt marshes from Alabama to Louisiana.

The length of the forewings is 14.5–18 mm for males and 17.5–20 mm for females. The forewing ground color in spring and summer specimens is yellowish white to buff with grey streaking, the hindwing white to whitish buff. The forewing in fall and winter specimens darker with more brown shading, the hindwing variably suffused with brown, especially along wing margin. The longitudinal stripe broader than in any other species in genus. Adults are on wing throughout the year.

Etymology

The species name refers to the width of the longitudinal dark stripe on the forewing in both sexes.[1]

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