A Spotted Straw Moth in Prince George's Co., Maryland (7/11/2004). Specimen provided by Bob Patterson.
A Spotted Straw Moth in Prince George's Co., Maryland (7/11/2004). Specimen provided by Bob Patterson.
A Spotted Straw Moth caterpillar in Calvert Co., Maryland (8/11/2019).
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3 Records
Status
"This moth is expanding its range northward. In 1954 the moth was not known to occur north of the Carolinas. It's now common and widespread in southern New Jersey." (BugGuide)
Relationships
Favors Purpletop Tridens as a larval host.
Citations
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A Spotted Straw Moth in Prince George's Co., Maryland (7/11/2004). Specimen provided by Bob Patterson.
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A Spotted Straw Moth in Prince George's Co., Maryland (7/11/2004). Specimen provided by Bob Patterson.
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Larry Line.
A Spotted Straw Moth caterpillar in Calvert Co., Maryland (8/11/2019).
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Ben Springer.
Source: Wikipedia
| Heliocheilus turbata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Heliocheilus |
| Species: | H. turbata
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| Binomial name | |
| Heliocheilus turbata (Walker, 1858)
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| Synonyms | |
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Heliocheilus turbata, the spotted straw moth, is a moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America, including Georgia.
Heliocheilus lupatus is no longer considered a synonym of Heliocheilus turbata.
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