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Orange-tipped oakworm moth - Hodges#7719 (Anisota senatoria)
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Copyright © 2014
patricia silvernail
orange moth -
Anisota senatoria
hoschton, jackson County, Georgia, USA
July 16, 2014
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Contributed by
patricia silvernail
on 16 July, 2014 - 8:26pm
Last updated 20 August, 2016 - 2:34am
Moved
Moved from
Anisota
.
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Jason D. Roberts
, 20 August, 2016 - 2:34am
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Ansisota senatoria
According to the lepidopterists I've spoken to, A. senatoria doesn't occur in Georgia, only A. peigleri. They say it's southern range ends somewhere around the southern border of Kentucky and Virginia. James Adams is one of the sources if you would like to confirm.
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Mike Chapman
, 8 September, 2020 - 11:25am
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Hard to say
We have some conflicting data, so it's hard to say. We do have positively identified
senatoria
in GA (several DNA sequenced), so I'm hesitant to say that it simply doesn't occur in GA. For this specimen, the following 2 factors would put weight on the scale for
senatoria
:
a) It's a bit too early for
peigleri
.
b) It's in the Piedmont region, which is really the most southern region in GA that it's been confirmed.
Now I believe Dave Wagner has said
peigleri
replaces
senatoria
south of NC, but there's a good possibility that these upper GA Piedmont specimens are in an overlap zone, part of a bleed-over of the southern NC population. It's also
possible
(though I don't know how probable) that all the GA
senatoria
identified specimens, including those sequenced, are erroneous IDs. I have my doubts that that's the case, but it's not impossible. It's been quite a few years since I tackled this genus, but that's at least the rationale behind the current placement.
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Jason D. Roberts
, 8 September, 2020 - 1:19pm
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id
thank you
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patricia silvernail
, 17 July, 2014 - 10:30am
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Seems rather late for
Anisota virginiensis
, though certainly not impossible. Also, this image is not the clearest so I cannot rule out
A. peigleri/A. senatoria
.
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Ryan St Laurent
, 16 July, 2014 - 9:08pm
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Not too late in this region.
I had them into August here in North Florida, and there are late summer posts from Georgia and Alabama. Anyway, it's definitely a male, judging by the transparent forewing patches.
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Peter Homann
, 17 July, 2014 - 8:14am
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Anisota
You are certainly correct on both accounts. I should have looked at BugGuide's other accounts. Generally speaking,
A. virginiensis
is much earlier than other
Anisota sp.
in the Northeast.. and I was taking that into account seeing as this was NW Georgia.. where I've always considered
A. virginiensis
to show up well before
A. senatoria/ peigleri
, however, there are plenty of other late
A. virginiensis
records from the same area here on BugGuide, and after consulting my copy of Tuskes et al., I see that
A. virginiensis
is multi-brooded in this region, something I hadn't considered (though I would have expected from North Florida) from the lower Appalachian region of GA.
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Ryan St Laurent
, 17 July, 2014 - 3:52pm
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resembles
Pink-striped Oakworm Moth
but I'm not an expert
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Larry Clarfeld
, 16 July, 2014 - 8:47pm
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