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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Xylenini » Xylenina » Pinions (Lithophane) » Ashen Pinion - Hodges#9910 (Lithophane antennata)
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Caterpillar sharing oak leaves with sawfly larvae - Lithophane antennata
Copyright © 2010 Beatriz Moisset

Caterpillar sharing oak leaves with sawfly larvae - Lithophane antennata
Rocky Gap State Park, Allegany County, Maryland, USA
May 8, 2010
Size: 16-18 mm
Does this help? It keeps getting bigger and the sawfly larvae keep disappearing. There were six on May 3, only four three days later and today there was only one left, which I moved to another container. There is no way they could have escaped and no way I would have missed them with only two oak leaves in the container. I checked thoroughly. I wish I had kept the "exuvia"; maybe they were forensic evidence.
Lithophane querquera has been found to be predatory occasionally (Schweitzer, D. F. Predatory behavior in Lithophane querquera and other spring caterpillars. J. Lepid. Soc 1979. 33:129–134) so this is very intriguing.

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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 8 May, 2010 - 3:00pm
Last updated 8 March, 2019 - 4:53pm

Moved
Moved from Pinions.
… Beatriz Moisset, 25 June, 2010 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

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… Beatriz Moisset, 25 June, 2010 - 3:05pm login or register to post comments

The description of the Ashen Pinion
Lithophane antennata, Wagner page 404, reads very well. but again there are lots of Lithophane. We may have to wait for Wagner's next book to know more about them. It looks as though it is getting ready to molt, so maybe we'll see more afterwards.
… john and jane balaban, 8 May, 2010 - 8:43pm login or register to post comments

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