Spargaloma sexpunctata

Spargaloma sexpunctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Spargaloma
Species: S. sexpunctata
Binomial name
Spargaloma sexpunctata
Grote, 1873

The Six-spotted Gray (Spargaloma sexpunctata) is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from coast to coast in lower Canada south in the east to Florida, Mississippi and Arkansas, in the west to California.

The wingspan is 25–29 mm. Adults are on wing from May to September. There is one generation in the north and two or more in Connecticut and southern Ohio.

The larvae feed on the underside of the leaf blades of Apocynum species.


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