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Species Clostera inclusa - Angle-lined Prominent - Hodges#7896

Representative Images

Poplar Tentmaker - Clostera inclusa Angle-lined Prominent Moth - Clostera inclusa Clostera inclusa - Angle-lined Prominent - Clostera inclusa Clostera inclusa Clostera inclusa Moth to porch light - Clostera inclusa Clostera inclusa - larva - Clostera inclusa Larvae ID Request - Clostera inclusa
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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 Pygaerinae
Genus Clostera
Species inclusa (Angle-lined Prominent - Hodges#7896)

Hodges Number

7896

Other Common Names

Many-lined Prominent - not to be confused with Many-lined Angle (Macaria multilineata, a geometer moth), ["Prominent" refers to moths in family Notodontidae; "Angle" refers to moths in family Geometridae]
Poplar Tentmaker (caterpillar)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Clostera inclusa (Hübner, 1831)

Size

wingspan 23-36 mm (1)

Range

Throughout eastern North America

Season

March-September

Food

Larvae feed on aspen, willows, poplars

Life Cycle

Eggs are laid in clusters on the undersides of leaves. The larvae are gregarious and live in tents they construct by putting together the edges of one or more leaves and lining them with silk. They feed from May to Oct then crawl to the ground and pupate in loose cocoons.(2)
Overwinter as pupae(2)
1-2 generations per year(2)
Eggs; larvae; larva; larva; larva; adult

Print References

Covell, p. 328, plate 42 #12 (1)
Wagner, p. 55 (3)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group
iNaturalist
Mass Moths
Maryland Biodiversity
Florida Nature - photos of larvae
Moths of North Carolina

Works Cited

1.Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths
Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.
2.Eastern Forest Insects
Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.
3.Caterpillars of Eastern Forests
David L. Wagner, Valerie Giles, Richard C. Reardon, Michael L. McManus. 1998. U.S. Dept of Agriculture, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Robin McLeod, Ethan Kistler, marcie oconnor, Marci Hess
Last updated 3 September, 2023 - 5:58pm

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