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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Pterophorinae » Pterophorini » Hellinsia » Hellinsia paleaceus - Hodges#6207 (Hellinsia paleaceus)
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Caterpillar ID Request - Hellinsia paleaceus
Copyright © 2006 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Caterpillar ID Request - Hellinsia paleaceus
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
August 18, 2006
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 16 November, 2006 - 11:59am
Last updated 5 June, 2010 - 12:44pm

Moved
Moved from Plume Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 9 May, 2009 - 7:51pm login or register to post comments

I can't be certain about this
I can't be certain about this without a closer image but it looks like Hellinsia paleaceus. If you can identify the plant as a species of Vernonia then we are in business. Hellinsia paleaceus larvae have short capitate setae (pin head tips) arranged around the longer setae with pointed tips. You can almost make out some of the capitate setae in the image.
… Deborah Matthews, 9 May, 2009 - 7:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Deborah, we posted some caterpillars
here

which were feeding on Eupatorium purpureum.
… john and jane balaban, 4 June, 2010 - 6:41pm login or register to post comments

 
I
am fairly confident it is eating on a Vernonia sp.
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 9 May, 2009 - 10:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Deborah,
would you email John VanDyk (email available at Iowa State through the link at the bottom of this page) and request that he give you editor status as a plume-moth expert? We will email him and tell him we suggested it. Our reason for suggesting it is that editors get to see images at full posted size. This image was posted at larger than 1000 pixels, twice the size of the 570 image you see. When you look at the larger image you can easily see those capitate setae. Seeing the full size images would be a great help to all the work you are doing identifying these images. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
… john and jane balaban, 9 May, 2009 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Cropping
may help, too.
… John R. Maxwell, 11 May, 2009 - 5:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Will do.
Will do.
… Deborah Matthews, 10 May, 2009 - 9:00pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tiger Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 30 December, 2008 - 4:30pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 18 December, 2006 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

Looks like we have three of these
but we still don't have a clue
… john and jane balaban, 17 December, 2006 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Mine
appears to be eating a Vernonia sp.
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 30 December, 2008 - 4:44pm login or register to post comments

 
The only thing we have found that looks like
any of these are the Plume Moths, so we moved them to that family. We don't know how much more of an ID is possible, but we'll see!
… john and jane balaban, 30 December, 2008 - 5:15pm login or register to post comments

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