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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Slug Caterpillar Moths (Limacodidae) » Alarodia » Packard's White Flannel Moth  - Hodges#4673 (Alarodia slossoniae)

Species Alarodia slossoniae - Packard's White Flannel Moth - Hodges#4673

Classification · Hodges Number · Explanation of Names · Internet References
A. slossoniae on Conocarpus erectus - Alarodia slossoniae A. slossoniae on Conocarpus erectus - Alarodia slossoniae
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Zygaenoidea (Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin)
Family Limacodidae (Slug Caterpillar Moths)
Genus Alarodia
Species slossoniae (Packard's White Flannel Moth - Hodges#4673)
Hodges Number
4673
Explanation of Names
Species epithet is for entomologist Annie Trumbull Slosson.
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pinned adults.
Lepidoptera of Florida Checklist - presence in Florida.
Larval image Dyar
Description of Larva Dyar
Contributed by Dennis Profant on 1 January, 2006 - 3:13pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, john and jane balaban, Robin McLeod, Maury Heiman, Arturo Santos
Last updated 6 June, 2020 - 6:54pm

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