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Platarctia parthenos (St. Lawrence tiger moth)

Synonyms: Platarctia borealis

Wikipedia Abstract

Platarctia parthenos (St. Lawrence tiger moth) is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Harris in 1850. It is found in boreal North America, ranging from Alaska to Labrador, south to New Mexico and Arizona in the Rocky Mountains and to North Carolina in the Appalachian Mountains. The habitat consists of riparian areas and mixed hardwood-conifer forests at middle to high elevations. The larvae feed on various plants, including Salix, Alnus and Betula species. The species first overwinters as a fifth instar larva and again as an eighth instar larva.
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Prey / Diet

Apocynum androsaemifolium (flytrap dogbane)[1]
Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen)[1]
Vaccinium myrtilloides (velvetleaf huckleberry)[1]

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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
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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