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]
^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]
^ abH. 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.
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