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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Xylenini » Xylenina » Pinions (Lithophane)
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Lep larva - Lithophane
Copyright © 2015 MJ Hatfield

Lep larva - Lithophane
Backbone State Park, Delaware County, Iowa, USA
May 30, 2015
Only one day between this and the fresh molt green from yesterday, so I double and triple checked the rearing jar. Nothing else in there. I'm perplexed, not so much that they are the same but that the change (another molt?) could have happened in just one day. Comments appreciated.

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Lep larva, eating gall on Shagbark Hickory leaf - Lithophane Lep larva, dorsal - Lithophane Lep larva - Lithophane Lep larva, fresh molt - Lithophane Lep larva, fresh molt - Lithophane Lep larva - Lithophane Lep larva, head - Lithophane Lep larva feeding - Lithophane Lep larva feeding - Lithophane Lep larva feeding - Lithophane
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 30 May, 2015 - 10:36am

We watched an Enchenopa change from ghostly white
to dark as it dried and hardened, so we wouldn't be surprised if cats could do it.
… john and jane balaban, 30 May, 2015 - 2:40pm login or register to post comments

The wavy black upper edge to the
subspiracular line in the description in Owlets to L. bethunei, pg 433, sounds good, but we don't know how many look like that :(
… john and jane balaban, 30 May, 2015 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

Wonder if the molt starts off looking green
but takes on richer colors as it dries and hardens. We would not expect it to molt twice in two days.
… john and jane balaban, 30 May, 2015 - 1:33pm login or register to post comments

 
I thought of that
but that seemed a stretch as well.
I think Matt Keene has reared these and I've emailed him.
… MJ Hatfield, 30 May, 2015 - 2:12pm login or register to post comments

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