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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Hooktip and False Owlet Moths (Drepanoidea) » Hooktip and False Owlet Moths (Drepanidae) » Hooktip Moths (Drepaninae) » Oreta » Rose Hooktip - Hodges#6255 (Oreta rosea)
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Possible heterocampa cat - Oreta rosea
Copyright © 2011 Pamm Cooper

Possible heterocampa cat - Oreta rosea
Vernon, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
May 29, 2011
Size: 1 1/2 #
Found on a small arrowwood next to a stream
Has only one anal proleg, not two, appearing more like a tail

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Possible heterocampa cat - Oreta rosea Possible heterocampa cat - Oreta rosea
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Contributed by Pamm Cooper on 30 May, 2011 - 10:28am
Last updated 31 May, 2011 - 7:51pm

Pamm,
Please contact us by email (see our contributor page here) regarding permission to display on Plates at Moth Photographers Group photographs of moths and larvae that you have posted here at BugGuide. You’ll have to translate our address into a real email one, sorry. Thanks, J&J.
… john and jane balaban, 23 October, 2011 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 31 May, 2011 - 7:51pm login or register to post comments

How about Oreta rosea instead?
… john and jane balaban, 30 May, 2011 - 2:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Probably is. It was on a nati
Probably is. It was on a native viburnum and is the only eastern caterpillar with a long unpaired " tail " according to David L.Wagner. It apears in a photo in his book " Caterpillars of the Northeast " on page 139. Thanks for the tip!
… Pamm Cooper, 31 May, 2011 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

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