| Moths of North Dakota |
Arctiidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini |
Hypercompe permaculata (Packard 1872)
| Common name: listed here as ‘Western
leopard moth.’
Hodges #: 8144 as Turuptiana maculata (Packard). Identification: Rfw 18.5 mm, pro-coxae clothed in gray hair-scales and having a woolly appearance, meta-tibiae with a single pair of spurs, abdomen lacks orange markings. Similar species: 8199, 8140, 8137, 8136, 8134, 8133, 8132, 8131. Distribution: western edge of Great Plains, Rocky Mt. states, Great Basin, and southward into northern Mexico. Hosts: reported from a number of widespread plants: Stellaria media L.-- common chickweed, Polygonum-- knotweed, Taraxicum-- dandelion, and Plantago-- plantain.
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ND, Golden Valley Co. Trotters, 17- vi- 1963. coll. J. & P. Quinnell.
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