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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Heterocampinae » Heterocampa » Oblique Heterocampa - Hodges#7983 (Heterocampa obliqua)

Species Heterocampa obliqua - Oblique Heterocampa - Hodges#7983

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

Oblique Heterocampa - Heterocampa obliqua

Which Heterocampa? - Heterocampa obliqua

Prominent ID request. - Heterocampa obliqua - male

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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 Heterocampinae

Genus Heterocampa

Species obliqua (Oblique Heterocampa - Hodges#7983)

Hodges Number

7983

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Heterocampa obliqua – Packard, 1864

* phylogenetic sequence #930075

Numbers

Twenty-one Heterocampa species are found in America north of Mexcio.

Size

Caterpillar to 45 mm

Identification

Caterpillar: "Green, tan, pink or reddish brown with abundant wavy mottling formed from lines of wine-red spots;white diamond saddle over T3-A4; and body tapered rearward fof A5. Head pale, mottled...Dorsum of prothorax with white triangular mark, edged outwardly with black and reddish wart in each anterior corner."(1)

Range

Eastern North America

Food

Oak (1)

Life Cycle

Larva; adult

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - range map, photos of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with collection map and photos of pinned adults.

Moths of North Dakota - pinned adult and description.

Moth Photographers Group - photo of pinned Heterocampa obliqua adult and related species.

Works Cited

1.	Caterpillars of Eastern North America David L. Wagner. 2005. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 9 November, 2006 - 10:39am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ethan Kistler, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 5 July, 2018 - 2:26pm

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