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Neoprocris sp. |
Leaf Skeletonizer Moths |
MONA# |
Family: Zygaenidae |
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Classification
KINGDOM: Animalia
PHYLUM: Arthropoda
CLASS: Insecta
ORDER: Lepidoptera
SUPERFAMILY: Zygaenoidea
FAMILY: Zygaenidae
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General Species Description
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FIELD NOTES for Neoprocris sp.: |
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| Locality & GPS coords |
| Copper Canyon, Huachuca Mts, Cochise County, AZS |
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| Habitat |
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| Host Plant |
| Prunus serotina, Black Cherry |
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Field Notes & Observations:
| 8/12/2012 |
- Looking up a black cherry, I saw a tiny red object on underside of leaf. After noticing feeding damage (small window-like areas of the leaf where leaf tissue was chewed out) on the leaf, I pretty much figured the little object to be a Zygaenid. |
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- Climbing up the cherry tree to collect the Zygaenid caterpillar, I found several early stages of Acronicta caterpillars. This species of Noctuidae also skeletonizes leaves and leaving hints of one of many lepidoptera possibilities. |
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| HABITAT |
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| Copper Canyon, Huchuca Mts, AZ |
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| Prunus serotina, (need image) |
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REARING / LAB NOTES for Neoprocris sp.: |
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| Food plant used |
host plant from field |
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| Pinned adult (eclosion, September 23, 2012) |
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| Number of days (pupa to eclosion) |
30 + days (late August 2012 to late September 2012) |
Morphology Notes:
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Length: 12mm |
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| Penultimate Stage, lateral & dorsal |
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| Cocoon, post-eclosion |
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| Adult eclosion, summer 2012 |
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