A Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Worcester Co., Maryland (7/30/2013).

A Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Prince George's Co., Maryland (6/26/2010).

A Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Prince George's Co., Maryland (6/26/2010).

Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Queen Anne's Co., Maryland (7/26/2022). (c) Jim Brighton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).

A Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Kent Co., Maryland (8/15/2021).

Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/24/2014). (c) jdyoung128, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).

Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Worcester Co., Maryland (10/12/2014). Determined by Curtis Lehman/BAMONA.

12 Records

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Feeds on many different woody plants.

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A Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Worcester Co., Maryland (7/30/2013). View Record Details Media by Scott Housten.

A Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Prince George's Co., Maryland (6/26/2010). View Record Details Media by Bob Patterson.

Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Queen Anne's Co., Maryland (7/26/2022). (c) Jim Brighton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). View Record Details Media by Jim Brighton.

A Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Kent Co., Maryland (8/15/2021). View Record Details Media by Dave Webb.

Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/24/2014). (c) jdyoung128, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). View Record Details Media by jdyoung128 via iNaturalist.

Black-olive Caterpillar Moth in Worcester Co., Maryland (10/12/2014). Determined by Curtis Lehman/BAMONA. View Record Details Media by Scott Housten.

Source: Wikipedia

Garella nilotica

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Nolidae
Genus:	Garella
Species:	G. nilotica
Binomial name
*Garella nilotica* (Rogenhofer, 1881)
Synonyms
Sarrothripus nilotica Rogenhofer, 1882 Characoma nilotica Paraxia chamaeleon Möschler, 1890 Clettharra littora Bethune-Baker, 1894 Thalpochares laurea H. Druce, 1898 Nycteola proteella Dyar, 1898 Characoma nilotica nigronotata Warren, 1913 Characoma nilotica macula Warren, 1913 Characoma nilotica basibrunnea Warren, 1913 Characoma albifascia Draudt, 1935

Garella nilotica, the black-olive caterpillar or bungee caterpillar, is a moth of the family Nolidae. It was described by Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1881. It has a pantropical distribution, including the eastern North America (from Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New York south to Florida and Texas), the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, Australia, Guam, Fiji, Samoa, the Galápagos Islands and the Chagos Archipelago.

The wingspan is about 15 mm.

The larvae feed on various trees and shrubs in at least five families of broad-leaved plants, including Cynometra, Heritiera, Mangifera, Terminalia, Rhododendron, Bucida (including Bucida buceras), Canocarpus, Olea, Prunus, Salix and Tamarix species.

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Barnett, L. K.; Emms, C. W. & Holloway, J. D. (July 1, 1999). "The moths of the Chagos Archipelago with notes on their biogeography". Journal of Natural History. 33 (7): 1021–1038. Bibcode:1999JNatH..33.1021B. doi:10.1080/002229399300065.
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Taxon identifiers
Garella nilotica	Wikidata: Q5522764 AfroMoths: CHARNILO BAMONA: Garella-nilotica BOLD: 316937 BugGuide: 103879 CoL: 9429Z Fauna Europaea: 447152 Fauna Europaea (new): 0b23b609-95ac-473a-ac51-e08fed59e62b GBIF: 4534796 iNaturalist: 220292 ITIS: 938860 LepIndex: 274724 MONA: 8974 MaBENA: GarelNilot NatureServe: 2.743346 NCBI: 1232011 Open Tree of Life: 576975

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