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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 · Size · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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
Size
WS 45-50mm
Identification
There is a form with markings (which vary) and a 'reversed' form:
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
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)
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, Robert Lord Zimlich, marcie oconnor, Chuck Sexton
Last updated 21 July, 2021 - 9:15pm

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