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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Phalerinae » Datana » Angus's Datana Moth - Hodges#7903 (Datana angusii)

Species Datana angusii - Angus's Datana Moth - Hodges#7903

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

Angus's Datana Moth Cats - Hodges#7903 - Datana angusii

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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 Phalerinae

Genus Datana

Species angusii (Angus's Datana Moth - Hodges#7903)

Hodges Number

7903

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Datana angusii Grote & Robinson, 1866

Size

FWL ≈ 21 mm (1)

Identification

Adult: FW outer margin crenulate, groundcolor darker towards costa and between transverse lines. HW light brownish, PM area with light and dark traceable fasciae. (1)

Adult: Most easily separated from other eastern Datana by color: D. angusii is dark gray with black lines across the forewings, and others are various shades of brown, yellow, and orange.

Adults resemble D. ministra but differ in having an entirely black cervical shield.(2)

Larva: Similar to D. integerrima

Range

Southern Canada and United States east of the Great Plains.

Food

Larva feed on walnut, Juglans, and hickory, Carya

Feeds on beech, gray birch, and butternut(2)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group – species page (3)

BOLD Systems - images of DNA supported specimens (4)

Moths of North Dakota – brief description and image of pinned adult (1)

Works Cited

1.	Moths of North Dakota Dr. Gerald M. Fauske. North Dakota State University.

2.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

3.	North American Moth Photographers Group

4.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 5 October, 2006 - 7:31pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Ethan Kistler, Robert Lord Zimlich, dennepj10, Marci Hess, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 2 December, 2023 - 10:08am

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