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Creosote Moth - Hodges#6381 (Digrammia colorata)
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Copyright © 2009
Bob Barber
Creosote Moth larva -
Digrammia colorata
Dog Canyon, Otero County, New Mexico, USA
April 13, 2009
I found this Geometrid larva on Creosote Bush and suspect it is Digrammia colorata - Creosote Moth - Hodges#6381. The link to a live larva photo is dead. Can anyone confirm?
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Contributed by
Bob Barber
on 13 April, 2009 - 2:25pm
Last updated 13 April, 2009 - 4:25pm
Synglochis perumbraria is the other possibility
I have called a caterpillar with this appearance that name, based on the presence of a small horn in mature instars which seems to indicate Boarmiini as the tribe. I don't think Macariini caterpillars can have this. But I am only guessing still.
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James Bailey
, 15 October, 2021 - 5:08pm
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I found images
of two other forms
http://tinyurl.com/d89byr
. The pattern is very similar. I think this is the dark form (twig mimic).
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Bob Barber
, 13 April, 2009 - 4:22pm
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