Species Seirarctia echo - Echo Moth - Hodges#8130

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Everglades Caterpillar - Seirarctia echo

Echo Moth Caterpillar, Seirarctia echo - Seirarctia echo

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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 Arctiini

Genus Seirarctia

Species echo (Echo Moth - Hodges#8130)

Caterpillar: "Fire orange with black and yelow bands across dorsum. Setae, mostly black, arising from raised orange warts...Spiracles bright white."(1)

Range

GA south through FL, west through MS

Habitat

Thickets, scrubwoods and open habitats

Food

"Coontie, cabbage palmetto, crotons, lupie, oaks, persimmon and other woody plants" (1)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Tony Thomas on 16 March, 2006 - 5:02am
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, anitagould
Last updated 16 September, 2007 - 11:51am

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