Species Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides - Tufted Thyatirin - Hodges#6237

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Orange caterpillar - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides

Tufted Thyatirid - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides

Unknown Moth - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides

caterpillar in rolled up raspberry leaves - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides

Tufted Thyatirin - Hodges#6237 - Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

No Taxon (Moths)

Superfamily Drepanoidea

Family Drepanidae (Hooktip & False Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Thyatirinae (False Owlet Moths)

Tribe Habrosynini

Genus Pseudothyatira

Species cymatophoroides (Tufted Thyatirin - Hodges#6237)

Hodges Number

6237

Other Common Names

formerly called Tufted Thyatirid (the former family Thyatiridae was reduced to a subfamily of Drepanidae, so the "id" ending was replaced with an "in" ending)

Numbers

the only species in this genus in North America

Size

wingspan 41-43 mm

Range

across southern Canada, and all of United States except the gulf coast states

Season

adults fly from April to October

Food

larvae feed on the leaves of alder, birch, maple, oak, poplar, willow

Internet References

live adult images of two color forms (Lynn Scott, Ontario)

adult images of two color forms (Larry Line, Maryland)

adult images of two color forms (Bob Patterson, Maryland)

pinned adult images of male and female, plus US distribution map [some data missing] (Paul Opler, Moths of North America, USGS)

pinned adult images of two color forms (CBIF)

pinned adult images of two color forms (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)

common name reference and larval food plants (Ohio State U.)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 20 July, 2005 - 2:36am
Additional contributions by anitagould
Last updated 7 March, 2006 - 12:32pm

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