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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Nystaleinae » Dasylophia » Black-spotted Prominent - Hodges#7957 (Dasylophia anguina)

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

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Black-spotted Prominent - Dasylophia anguina Black-Spotted Prominent larvae, 5th instar - Dasylophia anguina Dasylophia anguina Black-spotted prominent - Dasylophia anguina Dasylophia anguina Black-spotted Prominent - Hodges#7957 - Dasylophia anguina Dasylophia anguina - male moth061620-10 - 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 )
Life Cycle
Larva; larva; pre-pupal larva; adult; adult
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)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (2)
Moths of North Carolina
Butterflies and Moths of North America
University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
live adult images (Larry Line)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)
iNaturalist
Maryland Biodiversity Project
Works Cited
1.Moths of Western North America
Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.
2.North American Moth Photographers Group
3.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 6 January, 2005 - 3:32pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Ethan Kistler, marcie oconnor, Steve Morris
Last updated 1 January, 2025 - 5:25pm

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