Biology:Pygarctia spraguei

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Short description: Species of moth

Pygarctia spraguei
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Pygarctia
Species:
P. spraguei
Binomial name
Pygarctia spraguei
(Grote, 1875)
Synonyms
  • Euchaetes spraguei Grote, 1875
  • Euchaetes conspicua Neumoegen, 1890

Pygarctia spraguei, also known as Sprague's pygarctia or Sprague's tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1875. It is found in North America from the Great Plains of southern Canada to Texas , westward to Utah, eastward to Indiana and Louisiana.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 31 mm.

The larvae feed on Euphorbia species.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7262993 entry