Packardia elegans, the elegant tailed slug moth, is a species of moth in the family Limacodidae. It is found in Canada and the United States, where it has been recorded from woodlands and forests, ranging from north-eastern Missouri to Quebec and Maine, south to north-eastern Georgia.
| Packardia elegans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Limacodidae |
| Genus: | Packardia |
| Species: | P. elegans
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| Binomial name | |
| Packardia elegans | |
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The length of the forewings is 10–12 mm.[2]
The larvae feed on various woody plants, including beech, cherry and oak.[3]
Subspecies edit
- Packardia elegans elegans
- Packardia elegans fusca (Packard, 1864)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Synopsis of the Bombycidae of the United States. Alpheus Spring Packard Entomological Society of Philadelphia, III, 342, 1864
- ^ Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
- ^ Caterpillars of Eastern North America
- The Life-Histories of the New York Slug Caterpillars. XIII-XIV. Harrison G. Dyar, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Mar., 1898), page 5 (JStor Stable URL)
External links edit
- "Packardia elegans" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- Packardia elegans at insectoid.info
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