Salt Marsh Moth (NPS Catoctin Mountain Park Butterflies and Moths)

Salt Marsh Moth

Estigmene acrea

Summary ⁷

The Salt Marsh Moth or Acrea Moth (Estigmene acrea) is a moth in the family Arctiidae. It is found in North America, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Colombia and Mexico.

Habitat ⁸

Found in open wooded areas, meadows and prairie grassland.

Taxonomy ⁹

Comments: Following Lafontaine and Schmidt (2010), the traditional Arctiidae have been transferred to the family Erebidae as a subfamily (Arctiinae), with former subfamilies such as Lithosiinae now treated as tribes. The circumscription of Arctiinae remains virtually identical to recent circumscriptions of Arctiidae, but circumscriptions of some taxa within the Arctiinae have changed.

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(c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estigmene_acrea
(c) University of Alberta Museums, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/31881670
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Salt Marsh Moth

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