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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Scolecocampinae » Scolecocampa » Dead-wood Borer Moth - Hodges#8514 (Scolecocampa liburna)

Species Scolecocampa liburna - Dead-wood Borer Moth - Hodges#8514

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Dead-Wood Borer Moth - Scolecocampa liburna

Pennsylvania Moth - Scolecocampa liburna

Cat_09212021_GH_6346_1 - Scolecocampa liburna

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Erebidae

Subfamily Scolecocampinae

Genus Scolecocampa

Species liburna (Dead-wood Borer Moth - Hodges#8514)

Hodges Number

8514

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Scolecocampa liburna (Geyer, 1837)

Clytie liburna Geyer, 1837

Phylogenetic sequence # 930637

Size

Wingspan 35-43 mm

Identification

Adult: Straw-colored FW, with fragmented AM and PM lines reduced to rows of brown dots. Tiny black basal and orbicular spots are black. Hollow reniform spot is outlined brown. Dotted ST has dusky blotch beyond midpoint. (1)

Larva:

Caterpillar lacks prolegs (except for vestigial stumps) on the third abdominal segment, characteristic of genus (Forbes, 1954, ref. pers. comm. Dr. Steve Hall to P. Coin).

Historic description of caterpillar from Psyche vol. 2, Sept.-Dec., 1879. (Nos. 65-68), p. 272:

Length 38 mm., thickness 6 mm. Color, dirty white. Smooth and shining, with a few scattered hairs, Head and anal segment black. Contents of the intestinal canal showing through the skin of the dorsum. On each segment are twelve small black spots, two on each side of the dorsum, and four in the vicinity of the breathers. Legs and pro-legs light brown, the former rather darker than the latter.

Range

e. US. - Map (2),(3),(4),(5),(6)

Habitat

Deciduous forests

Season

Adults are most common from March-October, with earlier starting flight in the southern areas.

Heppner (2003) reported adults in Florida from January to November. (6)

Life Cycle

Larvae feed inside decaying logs of deciduous trees, may actually be feeding on fungi therein. (7)

Print References

Covell, p. 160, plate 40 #8 (8)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - MPG (9)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (10)

Works Cited

1.	Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.

2.	South Carolina Moth Species

3.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

4.	Arkansas Lepidoptera Survey

5.	Moths of Dallas County, Texas

6.	Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas: Lepidoptera of Florida J.B. Heppner. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture 17(1): 1-670.

7.	The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States William T.M. Forbes. 1923. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Memoir 68.

8.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

9.	North American Moth Photographers Group

10.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Cotinis on 26 January, 2005 - 11:20pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Fyn Kynd
Last updated 21 November, 2015 - 8:59pm

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