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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Spilosomina » Spilosoma » Dubious Tiger Moth - Hodges#8136 (Spilosoma dubia)
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81-Thirty-Something Arctiid? - Spilosoma dubia
Copyright © 2008 Ron Votaw

81-Thirty-Something Arctiid? - Spilosoma dubia
8 mi. SW of Wimberley, Comal County, Texas, USA
February 20, 2008
Size: 39mm span
At mercury vapor lamp.

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Contributed by Ron Votaw on 22 February, 2008 - 12:55am
Last updated 1 May, 2019 - 1:12pm

Moved
Moved from Virginian Tiger Moth.

I must have moved this one by mistake when I was cleaning up this genus 5 years ago. This one is indeed dubia; virginica never has that much black speckling, and the other Spilosoma don't have the yellow abdomen.
… Paul Dennehy, 1 May, 2019 - 1:12pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dubious Tiger Moth.
… Paul Dennehy, 31 May, 2014 - 11:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tiger Moths.
… Ron M., 12 November, 2009 - 6:59pm login or register to post comments

Strange case...
The shape of this image resembles Hyphantria cunea, but the orange abdomen shown in your second image more resembles Spilosoma virginica. Can be moved to Arctiini.

My final guess would probably be Spilosome virginica, because there are no pictures of a Fall Webworm with an orange abdomen.
… roar, 3 November, 2009 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Aha!! Here it is!!
This is a Dubious Tiger Moth, Spilosoma dubia.
… roar, 12 November, 2009 - 3:05pm login or register to post comments

 
hmmm...
Another species that is possibly this image would be a Many-spotted Tiger Moth - Hypercompe permaculata. I doubt it, though.
… roar, 8 November, 2009 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

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