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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Arctiina » Apantesis » Grammia ornata - Hodges#8177 (Apantesis ornata)

Species Apantesis ornata - Grammia ornata - Hodges#8177

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

Grammia ornata - Apantesis ornata - female

Ornate Tiger Moth - Apantesis ornata - male

Grammia ornata - Apantesis ornata - male

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Arctiinae (Tiger and Lichen Moths)

Tribe Arctiini (Tiger Moths)

Subtribe Arctiina

Genus Apantesis

Species ornata (Grammia ornata - Hodges#8177)

Hodges Number

8177

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Grammia ornata (Packard, 1864)

Apantesis ornata(1)

Size

FWL ≈ 16-20mm

Identification

Adult: FW appear black, typically with a net-like pattern of extensive yellowish or rosy off-white transverse lines and thinner pale veins. HW color is variable from yellow-orange, orange, to orange-red, rarely entirely black. HW is heavily marked with black, including the basal wing, multiple spots, and an irregular marginal band. These are often fused to each other, especially near the wing margin.

Larva: Larva is covered with long black hairs dorsally and laterally, but has red hairs ventrally, and has a yellow-orange middorsal line.

Range

Great Basin to Pacific Coast.

Moth Photographers Group – distribution & flight-period chart

Habitat

Fields and roadsides.

Food

Caterpillars: various herbaceous plants.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – images of live and pinned adults

BOLD Systems - images of pinned DNA supported specimens

Pacific Northwest Moths – detailed description & images of pinned adults

Works Cited

1.	National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders Lorus and Margery Milne. 1980. Knopf.

Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 2 May, 2006 - 11:25pm
Additional contributions by Robert Lord Zimlich, Abigail Parker
Last updated 17 May, 2013 - 5:43pm

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