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Species Dasylophia anguina - Black-spotted Prominent - Hodges#7957

Unknown caterpillar (DCP151) - Dasylophia anguina Black-Spotted Prominent - Dasylophia anguina Black-spotted Prominent - Dasylophia anguina - male Black-spotted prominent, exuvia - Dasylophia anguina Dasylophia - Dasylophia anguina - male Dasylophia anguina - Black-spotted Prominent - Dasylophia anguina Pennsylvania Moth - Dasylophia anguina Black-spotted Prominent - Dasylophia anguina
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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 Nystaleinae
Genus Dasylophia
Species anguina (Black-spotted Prominent - Hodges#7957)
Hodges Number
7957
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dasylophia anguina (J.E. Smith, 1797)
Phalaena anguina J.E. Smith, 1797
Size
Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length 14-18 mm. (1)
Range
Nova Scotia west to southeastern Saskatchewan and south to South Carolina in the east and eastern Texas in the west. It is replaced by D. saturata along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
Season
Powell & Opler (2009) reported the larvae are found June to October. (1)
Food
Legumes - clover, Lespedeza, locusts, wild indigo (Butterflies and Moths of North America )
Print References
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, p. 252; plate 42, fig. 24. (1)
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems