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Caripeta piniata (Northern Pine Looper)

Synonyms: Caripeta piniaria; Caripeta seductaria; Parennomos piniata

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.339 inches (.034 m)

Prey / Diet

Abies arctica (Canadian spruce)[2]
Pinus banksiana (Hudson Bay pine)[2]
Pinus resinosa (Norway pine)[2]
Pinus strobus (Eastern white pine)[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Auditory influences on the flight behaviour of moths in a Nearctic site. I. Flight tendency, Scott B. Morrill and James H. Fullard, CAN. J. ZOOL. VOL. 70, 1992, pp. 1097-1101
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0