Species Haploa confusa - Confused Haploa Moth - Hodges#8112 - Hodges#8112

Classification · Hodges Number · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited

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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 Arctiidae (Tiger Moths)

Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger Moths)

Tribe Callimorphini

Genus Haploa

Species confusa (Confused Haploa Moth - Hodges#8112 - Hodges#8112)

Hodges Number

8112

Identification

Adult: cream-colored forewing with variable brown markings usually covering more than half the wing surface and white hindwing.(1)

Caterpillar: black with uniform bright yellow dorsal stripe, broken sub-dorsal stripe, broad fragmented lateral stripe.

Range

"Manitoba to Northern Maine south to Pennsylvania and Great Lakes States" (2)

Food

larvae feed on Hound's tongue,(Cynoglossum officinale (1)

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America By Charles V. Covell, Jr.

2.	Caterpillars of Eastern North America By David L. Wagner

Contributed by tom murray on 28 July, 2005 - 9:17am
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason
Last updated 12 May, 2006 - 8:34am

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