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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Apameini » Borer Moths (Papaipema) » Turtle head borer moth - Hodges#9490 (Papaipema nepheleptena)
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Papaipema - Papaipema nepheleptena
Copyright © 2013 MJ Hatfield

Papaipema - Papaipema nepheleptena
Plymouth Rock, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
October 1, 2012

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 28 November, 2013 - 11:28pm
Last updated 8 October, 2015 - 9:34am

Moved
Moved from Borer Moths.
… MJ Hatfield, 8 October, 2015 - 9:34am login or register to post comments

Most likely nepheleptana.
Most likely nepheleptana.
… Chris Schmidt, 7 October, 2015 - 8:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you very much.
A Brees, local pap person, agrees with your ID.
I'm especially pleased with this one as it was photographed in a "fake" planted prairie. There is a small population of planted Turtlehead which is spreading down hill, the direction of water flow in a wet year.

M Keene, another local pap person, has found and reared this species on Blue Vervain from moist areas.
… MJ Hatfield, 8 October, 2015 - 9:44am login or register to post comments

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