Chocolate Prominent Moth
Peridea ferruginea (Packard, 1864)
Chocolate Prominent Moth: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/7268
Synonyms
Hodges #7921 
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34 Records

Relationships

Confirmed larval host plants are Gray Birch and Paper Birch. Other suspected larval host plants are Yellow Birch and Sweet Birch (Miller et al., 2018).

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Peridea ferruginea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Notodontidae
Genus: Peridea
Species:
P. ferruginea
Binomial name
Peridea ferruginea
(Packard, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Lophodonta ferruginea Packard, 1864

Peridea ferruginea, the chocolate prominent, is a species of prominent moth in the family Notodontidae.[1][2] It was described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1864 and is found in North America.[2] In 2018, Miller et al. distinguished Peridea bordeloni, whose larvae specialize on river birch Betula nigra, as a separate species, though P. bordeloni has previously been identified as P. ferruginea.[3]

The MONA or Hodges number for Peridea ferruginea is 7921.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ "Peridea ferruginea Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  2. ^ a b "Peridea ferruginea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  3. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org.
  4. ^ Pohl, G.R.; Patterson, B. & Pelham, J.P. (2016). Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico
  5. ^ "Peridea ferruginea, Chocolate Prominent - Hodges 7921". North American Moth Photographers Group. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  • Lafontaine, J. Donald & Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys. 40: 1–239.
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