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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) » Flannel Moths (Megalopygidae) » Norape » Norape virgo - Hodges#4649 (Norape virgo)

Species Norape virgo - Hodges#4649

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

a caterpillar in saltmarsh area along the Rio Grande nr Boca Chica TX - Norape virgo

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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 Megalopygidae (Flannel Moths)

Genus Norape

Species virgo (Norape virgo - Hodges#4649)

Hodges Number

4649

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Norape virgo (Butler)

Orig. Comb: Carama virgo Butler, 1877

* phylogenetic sequence #140675

Explanation of Names

virgo (L). 'virgin' (1), a reference to the all white adult.

Numbers

3 spp. n. of Mex. (2)

Identification

larvae variable:

Range

Common in extreme south Texas (3), ranges s. to Colombia.

Food

Larvae host on various legumes. South Texas Guy had this comment on his larval posting "One of many that appeared all at once on the immature fruit-spike of a fan palm, consuming it down to nothing in a period of perhaps three days and then disappearing."

Print References

Butler, A.G. 1877. Notes on the Lepidopterous genera Carama and Trichetra, with descriptions of new species. Cistula entomologica 2: 203

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - MPG

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. Hodges, et al. (editors). 1983. E. W. Classey, London. 284 pp.

3.	Illustrated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Vol. 3C: Micro-Moths and Geometroids Ed Knudson & Charles Bordelon. 2008. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Houston. 30 pp., 18 plates.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 28 November, 2007 - 4:37pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, tom murray, Randy Hardy
Last updated 25 May, 2018 - 12:44am

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