Chubby brown caterpillar - Elaphria

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… john and jane balaban, 21 March, 2014 - 5:48pm

Chubby Brown Caterpillar

Hi, Yurika - I feel certain it is an Elaphria, though your images do not match closely with any I could find on MPG (including your own for nucicolora!), BG, or Internet in general, or Wagner's Owlet book. I can see you have been searching awhile for an answer to this one! In your one image the head is so much smaller than the body. According to Wagner in the Owlet book, this small headed look is more evident in early instars. So it looks like yours may be an early instar. It seems to have some characteristics of the late instar for grata. My images were for a final instar. So it is possible it is a younger grata. The larger white dot on the front of the caterpillar, around the 3rd or 4th segment, is found at least on grata, festivoides, and nucicolora according to images in Wagner. Too bad if you were unable to raise it to an adult. You might have then had the first images ever taken and recorded of a particular instar for a known species.

… Jim Eckert, 27 November, 2013 - 9:36pm

The more I look at these,

the more I think they could be the Sugarcane, E nucicolora. What do you think? Maybe send Laci a note?

… john and jane balaban, 28 May, 2013 - 7:29pm

I still don't have that book and

Now amazon preview says "Pages 376-382 are not included in this book preview" and can not see it... :(
And if E nucicolora, NJ is too north for this southeastern species?

… Yurika Alexander, 28 May, 2013 - 9:42pm

Instead of going to preview

go instead to search inside this book. Search for nucicolora and you should be able to see page 381

… john and jane balaban, 28 May, 2013 - 10:01pm

Oh, OK...

Well, still can't say... FYI, Laci commented on this image...

… Yurika Alexander, 29 May, 2013 - 12:36am

Something in or near Elaphria

Owlets, pg 380. E grata?

… john and jane balaban, 11 November, 2012 - 6:11pm

I'm sorry...

I don't have that book and can not compare... And I can't find any image online :(

… Yurika Alexander, 11 November, 2012 - 9:48pm

If you go to Amazon books

and go to Wagner Owlets. You should be able to search inside the book. Search on georgei and that should take you to a view of page 381

… john and jane balaban, 11 November, 2012 - 10:05pm

Thanks!

I could look at. But that particular E. grata caterpillar image isn't so good and can't say for sure... :( At least, color is a good match though...

… Yurika Alexander, 11 November, 2012 - 10:48pm