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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) » Orthosiini » Crocigrapha » Norman's Quaker - Hodges#10501 (Crocigrapha normani)

Species Crocigrapha normani - Norman's Quaker - Hodges#10501

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References

Crocigrapha normani (Norman's Quaker) - Crocigrapha normani

Noctuidae, Norman's Quaker, larva, dorsal - Crocigrapha normani

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Orthosiini

Genus Crocigrapha

Species normani (Norman's Quaker - Hodges#10501)

Hodges Number

10501

Other Common Names

larva called Climbing Cherry Cutworm (Entomological Society of Canada)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Crocigrapha normani Grote, 1874

Perigrapha normani Grote, 1874

Numbers

the only species in this genus in the world

Identification

forewing usually dark brown but may be light or dark yellowish, orangish, reddish, or grayish; pale whitish antemedial (AM) line is fairly straight; pale postmedial (PM) line curves under reniform spot and slants up on both sides to touch the costa and inner wing edge respectively; inner quarter of reniform spot solid black; orbicular and reniform spots outlined in white; terminal line composed of several black dots or dashes; a pale gray patch is present at the apex

hindwing white basally, shading to gray distally, with a dirty yellow fringe

See descriptions by Grote, 1874 and Smith, 1890 in Print References below.

Range

Texas to Georgia, north to Nova Scotia, west to Alberta (also occurs in Oregon)

Season

adults fly from April to June

Food

larvae feed on ash, aspen, birch, cherry, oak, plum, and willow

Life Cycle

Larva; larva; spent pupa; adult

Print References

Grote, 1874. New Canadian Noctuae. The Canadian Entomologist. 6: 115

Smith, J.B., 1890. Contributions toward a monograph of the Noctuidae of temperate North America - Revision of some taeniocampid genera. Proceedings of The United States National Museum 12: 496

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Barcoding Life

Minnesota Seasons

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Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 May, 2005 - 1:43am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Tony-2, marcie oconnor, JoAnneRusso
Last updated 11 January, 2024 - 8:04am

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