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Anisota peigleri (Yellowstriped Oakworm)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Yellowstriped Oakworm (Anisota peigleri) is a moth of the Saturniidae family. It is found from south-eastern Kentucky, south-western Virginia, eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina south through western South Carolina and central Georgia into north-central Florida. It is a recently described species (Riotte 1975) and is similar to and was previously identified as Anisota senatoria (J. E. Smith). The wingspan is 43–69 mm. Adults are on wing from mid July to late August in one generation. Adults are on wing during the day. Mating takes place from midmorning until midafternoon.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.827 inches (.021 m)

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1Yellowstriped Oakworm (suggested common name), Peigler's oakworm, Anisota peigleri Riotte (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), David Serrano and John L. Foltz, University of Florida, October 2004. Revised August 2014
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
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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