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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 » Schizura » Chestnut Schizura - Hodges#8006 (Schizura badia)

Species Schizura badia - Chestnut Schizura - Hodges#8006

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Possible Chestnut Schizura ? - Schizura badia

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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 Schizura

Species badia (Chestnut Schizura - Hodges#8006)

Hodges Number

8006

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Schizura badia (Packard, 1864)

Edemasia badia Packard, 1864

Phylogenetic sequence # 930099 (1)

Size

Wingspan 30-35 mm.

Identification

Adult: thorax blackish; forewing gray, variously shaded with red; lines fine, blackish if present; whitish patch at apex; black reniform spot a vertical dash with triangular blackish shade beyond it, widening toward outer margin

hindwing dark brownish.

[description by Charles Covell]

Range

Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Texas, north to Saskatchewan

Season

Bivoltine on Block Island, RI, with adult records from late May through late August and peaks in abundance in June and early July and in August.(2)

Food

The larvae feed on Northern Wild-Raisin and other Viburnum species

Print References

Packard, 1864. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 3: 361.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (3)

live adult image (Dave Czaplak, Maryland)

pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (5)

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 .

2.	Block Island Moths

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

5.	Butterflies of North America

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 7 November, 2005 - 3:28am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ethan Kistler, Blocky, Steve Morris
Last updated 22 March, 2024 - 9:22am

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