Species Alypia langtoni - Six-Spotted Forester - Hodges#9318

Classification · Hodges Number · Remarks

Six spotted forester west of the rockies - Alypia langtoni

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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 Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Agaristinae

Genus Alypia

Species langtoni (Six-Spotted Forester - Hodges#9318)

Hodges Number

9318

Remarks

The most widespread Forester in Canada, ranging from Newfoundland & Labrador all the way to the Yukon. Adults with just one spot on each hindwing coupled with two on each forewing gives the species its common name.

Larvae feed on Fireweed (Epilobium) .

Contributed by Tony Thomas on 17 May, 2005 - 12:57pm
Last updated 17 May, 2005 - 9:25pm

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