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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Macariini » Digrammia » Creosote Moth - Hodges#6381 (Digrammia colorata)
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Hodges#6299 - Digrammia colorata - female
Copyright © 2017 A. Hendrickson

Hodges#6299 - Digrammia colorata - Female
1.3 miles NW of Campwood, Edwards County, Texas, USA
January 20, 2017
We have had an unusually warm January and this one was quite a surprise. It has laid eggs, but I will have a hard time finding any vegetation to feed the larva!

Submitted to BOLD and specimen an be seen in the public database as TXLEP352-17. It was moved to species by Christian Schmidt along with one other.

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Contributed by A. Hendrickson on 22 January, 2017 - 6:15pm
Last updated 26 February, 2020 - 10:33am

Moved
Moved from Speranza.

This specimen has been identified by BOLD as D. colorata and can be seen at TXLEP352-17 in the public database. I was shocked because we do NOT have Creosote Bush on our place and the caterpillars did not eat anything I offered it. A new mystery to solve!
… A. Hendrickson, 10 January, 2018 - 7:50am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Four-spotted Speranza.

Back to the drawing board. I have been told this is incorrect by an expert. Am now looking a S. quadrilinearia which looks to be quite variable.
… A. Hendrickson, 4 February, 2017 - 11:48am login or register to post comments

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