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Fully Grown Northern Giant Flag Moth Larva - Dysschema howardi

Size: 70 mm

Fully grown Dysschema howardi larva. It took approximately 70-90 days for most larvae to develop to this point after hatching.

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Contributed by ERand on 13 December, 2009 - 12:44am
Last updated 10 July, 2012 - 3:31pm

ERand,

Please contact us by email (see our contributor page here) regarding permission to display on Plates at Moth Photographers Group photographs of moths and larvae that you have posted here at BugGuide. You'll have to translate our address into a real email one, sorry. Thanks, J&J.

… john and jane balaban, 10 November, 2011 - 6:31pm

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Evan Rand

Thinking ERand might be an email address, I searched for an E. Rand in Arizona. That's him ... Evan Rand seems to be quite an authority on SE Arizona moths. Still, nowhere could I find an email. Edie and I have both requested, in other posts, that he add info to his account page. Hopefully, he will respond :)
Robert

… Robert Lord Zimlich, 12 February, 2013 - 3:47pm

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Can't tell from your contributor page

whether you live in the range of this beautiful creature. Or if you do whether you know the southwestern caterpillars. But if you do, we have many southwestern caterpillar images that need help with IDs. We just don't have a good reference for out there. If you recognize any of the following, could you leave a comment on them?

… john and jane balaban, 13 December, 2009 - 10:23am

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Southwestern Caterpillars

I don't think that I can provide much help for the ones you have pictured beyond what you've already done. There are about 2,000 moth species in SE Arizona alone, and at least another 2,000-3,000 moth species in the rest of the southwest. A very large percentage of the species have totally unknown life cycles, because the species is only known from adults collected at lights. Therefore there may be no reference for some of the larvae pictured.

… ERand, 13 December, 2009 - 5:49pm

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