Black-dotted glyph
Maliattha synochitis
The black-dotted glyph is a small owlet moth from North America. Owlet moths are a huge family of moths that mostly fly at night. This one has several names, all of them about its black dots.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like most moth caterpillars, its caterpillars feed on plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Black-dotted glyph about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Moth experts in North America give every moth a number, and this one is number 9049.
2
Two scientists described it together in 1868.
3
It has at least three English names: black-dotted glyph, black-dotted maliattha and black-dotted lithacodia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Black-dotted glyph
?Is the black-dotted glyph dangerous?
No. It is a small moth that cannot bite or sting.
?What kind of moth is the black-dotted glyph?
It is an owlet moth, from a very big family of moths that mostly fly at night.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Maliattha synochitis
- Named by
- Grote & Robinson, 1868
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Black-dotted maliattha, Black-dotted lithacodia
Where the facts come from
- Maliattha synochitis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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