Packardia elegans

Packardia elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
Infraorder: Heteroneura
Division: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Zygaenoidea
Family: Limacodidae
Subfamily: Limacodinae
Genus: Packardia
Species: P. elegans
Binomial name
Packardia elegans
(Packard, 1864)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cyrtosia elegans Packard, 1864
  • Cyrtosia fusca Packard, 1864
  • Packardia fusca
  • Packardia nigripunctata Goodell, 1881

Packardia elegans, the elegant tailed slug moth, is a species of moths in the family Limacodidae. It is found in Canada and the United States, where it has been recorded from woodlands and forests, ranging from north-eastern Missouri to Quebec and Maine, south to north-eastern Georgia.

The length of the forewings is 10–12 mm. The forewings are peppery grey with indistinct white lines.[2]

The larvae feed on various woody plants, including beech, cherry and oak.[3]

Subspecies

  • Packardia elegans elegans
  • Packardia elegans fusca (Packard, 1864)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Synopsis of the Bombycidae of the United States. Alpheus Spring Packard Entomological Society of Philadelphia, III, 342, 1864
  2. ↑ Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
  3. ↑ Caterpillars of Eastern North America
  • The Life-Histories of the New York Slug Caterpillars. XIII-XIV. Harrison G. Dyar, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Mar., 1898), page 5 (JStor Stable URL)


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