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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 » Lasiocampini » Malacosoma » Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth - Hodges#7698 (Malacosoma disstria)
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Is this some kind of tent caterpillar moth? Maybe Sonoran - Malacosoma disstria
Copyright © 2010 Alan Marble

Is this some kind of tent caterpillar moth? Maybe Sonoran - Malacosoma disstria
Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
June 30, 2010
This moth does not seem to have the same markings as the Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth and the Forest Tent Caterpillar moths that I have seen at my moth cloth.
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Contributed by Alan Marble on 25 July, 2010 - 9:38am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

This is 7698 - Malacosoma disstria with the darker AM and PM lines.
7701 - Malacosoma americanum has white/lighter AM and PM lines
Compare these

… Maury J. Heiman, 25 July, 2010 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

 
Forest Tent caterpillar Moth
Thank you very much.
… Alan Marble, 25 July, 2010 - 1:45pm login or register to post comments

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