Maryland Biodiversity Project - White-tipped Black (Melanchroia chephise)

White-tipped Black Melanchroia chephise (Stoll in Cramer, 1782)

Synonyms: Hodges #6616, Snowbush Spanworm.

Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Class Insecta > Order Lepidoptera > Family Geometridae > Genus Melanchroia White-tipped Black - Melanchroia chephise - https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/view/15324

Southern U.S. species that strays north in fall.

There are 2 records in the project database.

A White-tipped Black in Calvert Co., Maryland (5/14/2004). Photo by Arlene Ripley. (MBP list)

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