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Estigmene acrea (saltmarsh caterpillar)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Estigmene acrea (salt marsh moth or acrea moth) is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is found in North America, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Colombia and Mexico.
View Wikipedia Record: Estigmene acrea

Infraspecies

Estigmene acrea acrea
Estigmene acrea arizonensis
Estigmene acrea columbiana
Estigmene acrea mexicana

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Datana integerrima (walnut caterpillar)1
Pholisora catullus (Common sootywing skipper)1
Vanessa atalanta (red admiral)1

Consumers

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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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