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Species Schizura leptinoides - Black-blotched Schizura - Hodges#8011

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References
Black-blotched Schizura - Schizura leptinoides Prominent Moth Caterpillar - Schizura leptinoides
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)
Subfamily Heterocampinae
Genus Schizura
Species leptinoides (Black-blotched Schizura - Hodges#8011)
Hodges Number
8011
Other Common Names
Black-blotched Prominent
Identification
see Lynn Scott's description
Range
mostly eastern North America with scattered occurrences in the western US (see range map)
Season
adults fly from April to September
larvae present from May to October
Food
larvae feed on apple, beech, birch, hickory, oak, poplar, and walnut
Life Cycle
1 or 2 generations/year
Internet References
live adult images and other info (Lynn Scott, Ontario)
pinned adult image (CBIF)
pinned adult image (A.W. Thomas, Canadian Forest Service)
pinned adult images of male and female (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)
live larva image and other info (Caterpillars of Eastern Forests)
common name reference and other info (Ohio State U.)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 March, 2005 - 4:50am
Additional contributions by Ethan Kistler
Last updated 13 June, 2007 - 4:27pm

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