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Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Calvert Co., Maryland (6/3/2006).

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Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (7/25/2016).

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A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Howard Co., Maryland (8/27/2004).

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A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Harford Co., Maryland (7/8/2019). View Record Details Media by Dave Webb.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (5/31/2017). View Record Details Media by Mark Etheridge.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/30/2013). View Record Details Media by Benjamin DeHaven.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Howard Co., Maryland (8/13/2017). View Record Details Media by Anthony VanSchoor.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Dorchester Co., Maryland (8/22/2015). View Record Details Media by Jonathan Willey.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (7/7/2017). View Record Details Media by Mark Etheridge.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/23/2014). View Record Details Media by Emily Stanley.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Cecil Co., Maryland (8/4/2015). Identification verified by Roger Downer/BAMONA. View Record Details Media by Shannon Schade.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Harford Co., Maryland (6/30/2013). View Record Details Media by Mike Burchett.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (8/5/2016). Verified by Roger Downer/BAMONA. View Record Details Media by Mark Etheridge.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (9/9/2016). Verified by Roger Downer/BAMONA. View Record Details Media by Mark Etheridge.

Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Howard Co., Maryland (7/22/2013). View Record Details Media by Nancy Magnusson.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (6/20/2019). View Record Details Media by Mark Etheridge.

Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Calvert Co., Maryland (6/3/2006). View Record Details Media by Arlene Ripley.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Howard Co., Maryland (9/6/2016). View Record Details Media by Anthony VanSchoor.

Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (7/25/2016). View Record Details Media by Mark Etheridge.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Howard Co., Maryland (8/27/2004). View Record Details Media by Larry Line.

A Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (7/18/2017). View Record Details Media by Mark Etheridge.

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Small mossy lithacodia moth

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Deltote
Species:	D. musta
Binomial name
*Deltote musta* (Grote & Robinson, 1868)
Synonyms
Erastria musta Grote & Robinson, 1868 Lithacodia musta Eustrotia musta

Deltote musta, the small mossy lithacodia moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1868.^[1] It is found in the US from New Hampshire to Florida, west to Arizona and north to Wisconsin.^[2]

The wingspan is 15–19 mm. Adults are on wing from May to September.

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^ "931292.00 – 9051 – Lithacodia musta – Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth – (Grote & Robinson, 1868)". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
^ McLeod, Robin (July 24, 2018). "Species Lithacodia musta - Small Mossy Lithacodia - Hodges#9051". BugGuide. Retrieved September 30, 2020.

Taxon identifiers
Deltote musta	Wikidata: Q105243537 Insecta.pro: 72933
Lithacodia musta	Wikidata: Q5254883 BAMONA: Lithacodia-musta BOLD: 16085 BugGuide: 42552 EoL: 543342 GBIF: 1781819 iNaturalist: 223965 IRMNG: 10630295 ITIS: 939353 LepIndex: 271847 MONA: 9051 NatureServe: 2.116850 NCBI: 95252

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Small Mossy Lithacodia Moth

Lithacodia musta (Grote & Robinson, 1868)

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