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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Heterocampinae » Misogada » Drab Prominent - Hodges#7974 (Misogada unicolor)

Species Misogada unicolor - Drab Prominent - Hodges#7974

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Habitat · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Internet References

Drab Prominent - Hodges #7974 - Misogada unicolor

Drab Prominent Moth Caterpillar - Misogada unicolor

Heterocampa / Prominent sp.? - Misogada unicolor

Red caterpillar with pink stripe - Misogada unicolor

Can this Prominent moth, maybe Heterocampa be identified to species. - Misogada unicolor

Drab Prominent Caterpillar? - Misogada unicolor

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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 Misogada

Species unicolor (Drab Prominent - Hodges#7974)

Hodges Number

7974

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Misogada unicolor (Packard, 1864)

Misogada sobria Walker, 1865

Lochmaeus marina Packard, 1864

Lochmaeus unicolor Packard, 1864

phylogenetic sequence # 930066

Identification

Bronze scales on the tuft of the head are diagnostic in distinguishing this species from H. guttivitta which has green scales on the tuft.

Habitat

larvae can be found on the underside of cottonwood and sycamore leaves April-September. (1)

Food

larvae feed on cottonwood and sycamore

Life Cycle

Young larvae feed close together and skeletonize the undersides of leaves. Large larvae become solitary feeders and will devour all but a leaf’s major veins. (1)

See Also

Saddled Prominent Moth - Heterocampa guttivitta

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pinned adults.

Moth Photographers Group - photograph of living adult and related species for comparison.

Butterflies and Moths of North America - species account with known range maps.

forestpests.org - description and photograh of larva.

Noctuoidea of Eastern Canada - - photograph of pinned adult and related species.

Ohio State - collection records for Wayne County, Ohio.

South Carolina Moths - county map with collection records.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 9 October, 2005 - 3:06pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ethan Kistler, A. Hendrickson, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 18 April, 2019 - 12:15am

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