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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Boarmiini » Tornos » Dimorphic Gray - Hodges#6486 (Tornos scolopacinaria)
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Dimorphic Gray Moth - Hodges #6486 - Tornos scolopacinaria
Copyright © 2010 Robert Lord Zimlich

Dimorphic Gray Moth - Hodges #6486 - Tornos scolopacinaria
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
July 1, 2010
Quite surprisingly, this is the moth that emerged from the pupa. I wondered what happened to the pupa. Unfortunately, the moth emerged under the cloth on the bottom of my nursery. entrapped, Scooter expired before I found it.

Clearly, it is not an emerald, as I had suspected. Could this be a prominent? Thanks for any help.

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Dimorphic Gray Moth Caterpillar - Hodges #6486 - Tornos scolopacinaria Dimorphic Gray Moth - Hodges #6486 - Tornos scolopacinaria
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 3 July, 2010 - 11:44am
Last updated 7 April, 2011 - 9:44am

Moved
Moved from Geometrid Moths.
Well, the host plant seems to support this ID--the HOSTS Database lists Aster and Coreopsis as host plants, and the caterpillar was feeding on something in the same family (Asteraceae).
Did you get a shot of the pupa by any chance?
… Charley Eiseman, 5 April, 2011 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

Dimorphic Gray
The moth looks like a Dimorphic Gray:
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=6486
...But I haven't had any luck finding a picture of what the caterpillar is upposed to look like.
… Paul Dennehy, 5 April, 2011 - 12:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Makes Sense
I can't believe it. The Dimorphic Gray was in front of me the whole time. Wish I still had the moth. While photographing the moth, the ceiling fan blew it off the table, thus animating it for my cat (feline variety). Thanks, Paul
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 5 April, 2011 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

 
any chance you still have the
any chance you still have the adult specimen of this moth. Sam Jaffe just reared a larva from AL and I dissected it, the larva looks very similar, the moth was Tornos abjectarius. I think all the Tornos larvae are being lumped into T. scolopacinaria, and they might not be.
… JoAnneRusso, 5 February, 2023 - 2:12pm login or register to post comments

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