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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tent Caterpillar and Lappet Moths (Lasiocampoidea) » Tent Caterpillar and Lappet Moths (Lasiocampidae) » Lasiocampinae » Gastropachini » Phyllodesma » American Lappet Moth - Hodges#7687 (Phyllodesma americana)
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Underside of gray Phyllodesma caterpillar - Phyllodesma americana
Copyright © 2009 kristineoff

Underside of gray Phyllodesma caterpillar - Phyllodesma americana
Carrollton, Dallas County, Texas, USA
April 29, 2009
Size: maybe 1.5 inches
This caterpillar looks just like one that a person saw in 2008 in Louisiana and submitted to BugGuide. I think it is the same type, but I don't know exactly what type it is. I also have included a photo of the top, which also looks just like the top of the 2008 specimen from Louisiana on BugGuide.

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Underside of gray Phyllodesma caterpillar - Phyllodesma americana Gray Phyllodesma caterpillar - Phyllodesma americana
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Contributed by kristineoff on 2 September, 2009 - 1:58pm
Last updated 2 January, 2024 - 9:30am

Moved
Moved from Phyllodesma.
… john and jane balaban, 2 January, 2024 - 9:30am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Leptoglossus phyllopus.
… kristineoff, 14 September, 2009 - 1:10pm login or register to post comments

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… kristineoff, 14 September, 2009 - 1:05pm login or register to post comments

Lappet moth, don't know species
I think this is the very caterpillar you're referring to from LA in 2008:


There are 3 species of Phyllodesma in the U.S., it appears difficult to ID individuals not from the East Coast. See this comment under the LA caterpillar photo:
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It certainly looks like a Lappet but not Phyllodesma americana. Wagner, pg 228, says there's a southern Lappet which he calls Phyllodesma carpinifolia, but others call Phyllodesma occidentis, but we haven't seen an image of the larva.
… Abigail Parker, 13 September, 2009 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

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