Redectis vitrea
| Redectis vitrea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Redectis |
| Species: | R. vitrea |
| Binomial name | |
| Redectis vitrea (Grote, 1878) | |
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The scalloped snout or white-spotted redectis (Redectis vitrea) is a litter moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from Illinois to south-eastern Massachusetts, south to Texas and Florida.
The wingspan is about 18 mm. Adults are on wing from June to October. There are two generations per year in Virginia.
The larvae feed on various plants, including Elaeagnus umbellata, Ceanothus americanus and Digitaria species.
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