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Genus Heterocampa

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Unknown Caterpillar - Heterocampa obliqua Heterocampa pulverea White-blotched Heterocampa - Hodges#7990 - Heterocampa pulverea - female Heterocampa obliqua Presumed moth caterpillar - what species? - Heterocampa pulverea Oblique Heterocampa - Heterocampa obliqua - male Heterocampa averna Heterocampa umbrata - Heterocampa pulverea
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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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)
Subfamily Heterocampinae
Genus Heterocampa

Numbers

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 21 species of the genus Heterocampa in America north of Mexico. (1)

Identification

Heterocampa astarte


Heterocampa astartoides


Heterocampa biundata


Heterocampa guttivitta


Heterocampa obliqua


Heterocampa subrotata


Heterocampa umbrata

Works Cited

1.Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico.
Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman
Last updated 11 January, 2014 - 9:42am

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