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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Leaf Skeletonizer Moths (Zygaenidae) » Pryeria » Euonymus Leaf Notcher - Hodges#4639.1 (Pryeria sinica)

Species Pryeria sinica - Euonymus Leaf Notcher - Hodges#4639.1

Classification · Hodges Number · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References
I found alot of these moths on the western wall exterior of my house. - Pryeria sinica - male Please Identify me - Pryeria sinica - male Species ID - Pryeria sinica - female odd hymenopteran? - Pryeria sinica - female Euonymus Leaf Notcher - Pryeria sinica - female Overnight guest - Pryeria sinica - male Mystery caterpillar species - Pryeria sinica Unknown caterpillar avoids fresh peppermint leaf - Pryeria sinica
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Zygaenoidea (Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin)
Family Zygaenidae (Leaf Skeletonizer Moths)
Genus Pryeria
Species sinica (Euonymus Leaf Notcher - Hodges#4639.1)
Hodges Number
4639.1
Explanation of Names
Pryeria sinica Moore, 1877
Identification
Range
MD & VA (BG data), native to China and Korea
Food
Larvae feed on Euonymus and Celastrus species (Celastraceae)
Life Cycle
larvae feed gregariously
Remarks
first found in MD and VA in 2001; it is spreading - Introduced from Asia
Internet References
Wikipedia
Invasive species of concern in Maryland - MARYLAND INVASIVE SPECIES COUNCIL
JPMoth.org
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 12 November, 2007 - 12:46am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Chris Grinter
Last updated 28 April, 2017 - 3:51pm

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