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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) » Euchromiina » Cosmosoma » Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth - Hodges#8280 (Cosmosoma myrodora)
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Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth - Cosmosoma myrodora
Copyright © 2012 Karen Anthonisen Finch

Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth - Cosmosoma myrodora
Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida, USA
January 1, 2012
Found just outside secondary growth forest (Live Oak hammock) near a dried up stream where armadillos abound. The area was mostly weeds and some trees (pine, oaks) and many palmettos. The wasp moth was nectaring on a plant I would like to send to plant I.D. I will link a photo.

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Contributed by Karen Anthonisen Finch on 1 January, 2012 - 1:55pm
Last updated 2 January, 2012 - 12:10pm

Plant
The grooved, hairy stem and the flowerheads with a single series of equal-sized phyllaries fit perfectly with Erechtites hieraciifolia (good call by John Maxwell). Here is its link to the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (photos on "Fullscreen Slideshow").
… John Pearson, 6 January, 2012 - 8:46am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John and John.
Appreciated!
… Karen Anthonisen Finch, 6 January, 2012 - 1:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John R. Maxwell, 2 January, 2012 - 12:10pm login or register to post comments

Moth
Maybe Scarlet Bodied Wasp Moth?

… Yurika Alexander, 1 January, 2012 - 2:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Sure looks like it...
Thanks!
… Karen Anthonisen Finch, 1 January, 2012 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

 
date, etc
Would you edit this and put in a date? Other details'd be good too, such as habitat, plant that it was on or anything else that you might have. I forget these details at times, but they can be very useful to some people. Nice photo and thanks.
… David Almquist, 1 January, 2012 - 11:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Absolutely
I would like to add the details. I'll also add a side view photo of the insect. (I thought that since the blade of grass blurred the center, that the photo would be frassed.)
… Karen Anthonisen Finch, 2 January, 2012 - 10:15am login or register to post comments

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