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Painted Lichen Moth

Hypoprepia fucosa

Description:

About 2cm long found sunning itself on a black bbq cover near North Bay Ontario, Trout Lake

Habitat:

Mixed forest consisting of red and white pine, red maple and balsam.

1 Species ID Suggestions

catgrin
catgrin 9 years ago
Painted Lichen Moth
Hypoprepia fucosa Search - BugGuide.Net


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4 Comments

Maria dB
Maria dB 9 years ago

Lovely first spotting on Noah - welcome to the Project!

Welcome to Project ismellar
Nice first spotting,congrats and thanks for sharing
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catgrin
catgrin 9 years ago

:)
You're welcome! I got really lucky with the i.d. - fortunately this moth has really clear markings so I was able to see the color pattern.

ismellar
ismellar 9 years ago

Well that explains why I couldn't Id it. It looked so much like a beetle.
Thank you

ismellar
Spotted by
ismellar

North Bay, Ontario, Canada

Spotted on Aug 28, 2014
Submitted on Oct 31, 2014

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