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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Thermesiini » Ascalapha » Black Witch - Hodges#8649 (Ascalapha odorata)
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Black Witch Moth - BWM - Ascalapha odorata - female
Copyright © 2012 Steve Henrikson, Curator of Collections, Alaska State Museum

Black Witch Moth - BWM - Ascalapha odorata - Female
Auke Bay, 12 mi N of Juneau, Alaska, USA
October 4, 1977
A female Black Witch Moth found October 4, 1957 at Auke Bay, 12 mi N of Juneau, AK
Spangler, P.J. 1957. A record of Erebus odora in Alaska. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 11(6): 205. Full PDF
Photo by: Steve Henrikson, Curator of Collections, Alaska State Museum

This was the northern-most BWM ever recorded until the following record:


nr. Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
August 18, 2006
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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 28 December, 2012 - 6:05pm
Last updated 17 December, 2020 - 3:06pm

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