Chocolate Prominent Moth Peridea ferruginea (Packard, 1864)    Synonyms: Hodges #7921.
Kingdom Animalia   >   Phylum Arthropoda   >   Class Insecta   >   Order Lepidoptera   >   Family Notodontidae   >   Genus Peridea   

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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).

There are 32 records in the project database.

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A Chocolate Prominent Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (8/6/2016). Verified by Roger Downer/BAMONA. Photo by Mark Etheridge. (MBP list)

A Chocolate Prominent Moth in Frederick Co., Maryland (7/14/2018). Photo by Mark Etheridge. (MBP list)

A Chocolate Prominent Moth in Caroline Co., Maryland (8/12/2022). Verified by Roger Downer/BAMONA. Photo by Dave Webb. (MBP list)


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