Ardices canescens

Ardices canescens
	Female imago
	Larva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Ardices
Species:	A. canescens
Binomial name
	Ardices canescens; Butler, 1875
Synonyms
	Spilosoma canescens (Butler, 1875)

Ardices canescens, the dark-spotted tiger moth or light ermine moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae that is found across most of Australia. It originally was included in the genus Spilosoma, but later the generic status of Ardices was proven.^[1]

The larvae are polyphagous,^[2] and are known to feed on Bidens pilosa, Helianthus annuus, Taraxacum officinale, Ipomoea batatas, Alcea rosea, Rosa odorata, Plantago,^[3] Ricinus communis and Tradescantia albiflora.^[2] The polyembrionic parasitoid wasp Copidosoma floridanum sometimes uses this species of caterpillar as a host.^[4]

References[]

^ Dubatolov, Vladimir V. (July 2005). "On the status of the Australian genus Ardices Walker, 1855 with the description of a new subgenus for A. curvata Donovan, 1805" (PDF). Atalanta. 36 (1/2): 173–179, 394–395 (colour plate 10). ISSN 0171-0079.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b H. A. Rose (1985). "The relationship between feeding specialization and host plants to aldrin epoxidase activities of midgut homogenates in larval Lepidoptera". Ecological Entomology. 10 (4): 455–467. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1985.tb00744.x.
^ Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley (October 30, 2008). "Spilosoma canescens". University of Technology, Sydney. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
^ John S. Noyes (1988). "Copidosoma truncatellum (Dalman) and C. floridanum (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae), two frequently misidentified polyembryonic parasitoids of caterpillars (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 13 (2): 197–204. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1988.tb00241.x.

External links[]

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[1] Dubatolov, Vladimir V. (July 2005). "On the status of the Australian genus Ardices Walker, 1855 with the description of a new subgenus for A. curvata Donovan, 1805" (PDF). Atalanta. 36 (1/2): 173–179, 394–395 (colour plate 10). ISSN 0171-0079.^{[permanent dead link]}

[rose-2] H. A. Rose (1985). "The relationship between feeding specialization and host plants to aldrin epoxidase activities of midgut homogenates in larval Lepidoptera". Ecological Entomology. 10 (4): 455–467. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1985.tb00744.x.

[3] Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley (October 30, 2008). "Spilosoma canescens". University of Technology, Sydney. Retrieved January 1, 2009.

[4] John S. Noyes (1988). "Copidosoma truncatellum (Dalman) and C. floridanum (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae), two frequently misidentified polyembryonic parasitoids of caterpillars (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 13 (2): 197–204. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1988.tb00241.x.

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