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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Notodontinae » Gluphisia » Four-spotted Gluphisia - Hodges#7933 (Gluphisia avimacula)

Species Gluphisia avimacula - Four-spotted Gluphisia - Hodges#7933

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Four-spotted Gluphisia Moth - Gluphisia avimacula - male Four-Spotted Gluphisia - Gluphisia avimacula - female 7933 - Gluphisia avimacula - male What kind of Gluphisia? Bar Harbor, Maine - Gluphisia avimacula Four-spotted Gluphisia Gluphisia avimacula - Hodges#7933 - Gluphisia avimacula Four-spotted Gluphisia - Gluphisia avimacula Gluphisia avimacula Pennsylvania Moth - Gluphisia avimacula
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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 Notodontinae
Genus Gluphisia
Species avimacula (Four-spotted Gluphisia - Hodges#7933)
Hodges Number
7933
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Gluphisia avimacula Hudson, 1891
Phylogenetic Sequence # 930021
Identification
Variable, but it always has 2 small orange spots on the median band of each wing.

Range
Northern and eastern US and Canada (1)
BOLD has specimen records from western Canada (2)
Food
Unknown but probably aspen
Life Cycle
Larva; adult
See Also
In the south-west, (CO, UT, WY) the newly described species, Gluphisia dickeli seems to be similar to this species, with a more uniform wing coloration. Check the MPG page here.
Internet References
Pacific Northwest Moths
Moth Photographers Group
Mostly Moths of Maryland
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
Butterflies and Moths of North America
Works Cited
1.North American Moth Photographers Group
2.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by tom murray on 4 December, 2005 - 9:06am
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor, Fyn Kynd, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 26 January, 2022 - 10:31am

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