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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths (Saturniidae) » Royal Moths (Ceratocampinae) » Anisota » peigleri/senatoria group  (Anisota peigleri/senatoria group ) » Orange-tipped oakworm moth - Hodges#7719 (Anisota senatoria)
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Unknown Caterpillar - Anisota senatoria
Copyright © 2008 DNewman

Unknown Caterpillar - Anisota senatoria
Shannon County, Missouri, USA
September 17, 2008
Size: ~ 1 1/2 inches
Put it on a random Black Maple leaf left sitting on table and it began to eat.
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Contributed by DNewman on 17 September, 2008 - 2:30pm
Last updated 7 October, 2008 - 3:58pm

It certainly looks like...
...something in the Anisota senatoria complex, but I can't explain why it would be eating maple.
… Carmen Champagne, 18 September, 2008 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

 
I agree that this is Anisota
I agree that this is Anisota senatoria. It is probably eating the maple because it is in it's final instar and usually (from my experience) larvae tend to be quite greedy, eating many different foodplants than what they usually eat. It is not a color form of the rosy maple moth.
… Ryan St Laurent, 18 September, 2008 - 1:45pm login or register to post comments

Rosy Maple Moth?
Perhaps a color variant of the Rosy Maple Moth. Related to Anisota and that would explain its eating habits.
… Harry Zirlin, 17 September, 2008 - 4:37pm login or register to post comments

Strange that it ate maple leaves
because it looks like genus Anisota, in which case oak would be its preferred hostplant.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 17 September, 2008 - 3:44pm login or register to post comments

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