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Cerathosia tricolor? - Cydosia aurivitta

Cerathosia tricolor? - Cydosia aurivitta
Queen Wilhelmina State Park, Polk County, Arkansas, USA
June 1, 2008
We took these pictures four years ago, but had no clue what they were until lately we received "Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America," (Wagner et al., 2011), where we found a possible match with Cerathosia tricolor. Ours were feeding on the flowers of Indian Pink (Spigelia). We noted, however, that ours in eastern Arkansas were far to the east of the stated range, and we further noted ours had red head capsules, rather than the black pictured in the book, so possibly these represent a different species.

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Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths. The map for this species on MPG seems to indicate that this species could be found in Arkansas

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

We'll leave a note
and send an email to Robert Pilla to see if he will take a look at these and share his thoughts.

 
ID
Sorry, I can't help here. I have no idea what this is. The ID for the Cydosia Nobilitella was provided to me by David Wagner. My ability to ID pupae is severely limited.

Wonder if it also might be Cydosia
on the same page in Wagner. Seems like we can see some of the orange along the back. And it has been found on Spigelia. Did you get a dorsal shot?

 
Here are
two more images (and that is all we have). In some ways it does look more like Cydosia, but a South Florida specialty seemed even more unlikely than the Texas species.

Thank you, John and Jane, for your interest.

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