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Oak Beauty - Hodges#6763 (Phaeoura quernaria)
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Copyright © 2006
Robin McLeod
twig geometer - side -
Phaeoura quernaria
Land O' Lakes, Pasco County, Florida, USA
March 28, 2006
Size: about 25 mm
on aluminum flashing of house; I like the big fat "terminal bud"
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Contributed by
Robin McLeod
on 29 May, 2006 - 6:23pm
Last updated 22 November, 2007 - 4:27pm
seems very likely
Thanks for tracking this one down, J & J. I don't have Wagner's book but the Guide has a link to the larval account at Caterpillars of Eastern Forests. There's another species in the same tribe (Nacophorini) in Florida whose adult is shown
here
but it's presumably less common, and its larva might look completely different... I don't know.
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Oak Beauty
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Robin McLeod
, 22 November, 2007 - 4:27pm
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What do you think of Oak Beauty
Phaeoura quernaria, Wagner pg 175, right down to the fringe of setae between abdominal and anal prolegs?
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john and jane balaban
, 18 November, 2007 - 8:50pm
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