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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) » Callimorphina » Haploa » Reversed Haploa Moth - Hodges#8109 (Haploa reversa)

Species Haploa reversa - Reversed Haploa Moth - Hodges#8109

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Reversed Haploa Moth - Hodges#8109 - Haploa reversa

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Callimorphina

Genus Haploa

Species reversa (Reversed Haploa Moth - Hodges#8109)

Hodges Number

8109

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Callimorpha reversa Stretch, 1885

Callimorpha suffusa Smith, 1888

Size

WS 45-50mm

Identification

Food

"Haploa caterpillars are commonly associated with foodplants in the sunflower and borage families (Asteraceae and Boraginaceae) and other pyrrolizidine alkaloid rich plants, but forage widely, especially after hibernation."(1) Food plants include Hairy Puccoon - Lithospermum caroliniense and Aspen.

Life Cycle

Larva; pupa; adult

See Also

Haploa confusa

Haploa colona - yellow hindwings

CAUTION: White form of Callimorpha reversa cannot be separated from other members of the genus with a white form.

Print References

Covell, p. 63, plate 13 #11 & plate 16 #4 (2)

Internet References

MPG page

life cycle (MJ Hatfield)

Key to Arctiidae occurring in the Dakotas (North Dakota State University)

iNaturalist

Works Cited

1.	Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History (Princeton Field Guides) David L. Wagner. 2010. Princeton University Press, 1-496.

2.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 4 July, 2005 - 1:07pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, Steve Nanz, Robert Lord Zimlich, marcie oconnor, Chuck Sexton, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 16 June, 2024 - 4:37am

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