Notodonta dromedarius

• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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Common Names

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Description

Family Notodontidae

'The Notodontidae are members of the Superfamily Noctuoidea. These medium-sized moths have stout bodies and are typically drab--brown or grayish in color. Female prominents are generally larger than males. The proboscis varies widely; it is specialized in some species and reduced in others. When resting, prominents either hold their wings like a roof over the body or roll them, causing the moth to look like a stick . Larvae of some species are oddly shaped and look like parts of the host plant. Others are brightly colored and striped. Some are serious forest pests. Most prominents overwinter as larvae, pupating in a cell in the soil or in a loose cocoon on the ground in the spring .

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Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,500 meters (0 to 8,202 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Beccaloni G.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Notodonta

There are approximately 55 species in this genus:

N. albipuncta · N. albosigma · N. aliena · N. angustipennis · N. basalis · N. basitriens · N. bhasini · N. bipunctigera · N. cinerea · N. dembowskii · N. dentilinea · N. dromedarius (Iron Prominent) · N. frigida · N. fuegei · N. georgica · N. graeseri · N. griseotincta · N. grummi · N. herculana · N. hibernica · N. idea-trotzigae · N. inclusa · N. jankowskii · N. lappona · N. melaena · N. monetaria · N. mushensis · N. niger · N. pacifica (Notodonta Pacifica) · N. perfuscus · N. phoebe · N. picta · N. pira · N. roscida · N. rothschildi · N. sachalinensis · N. scitipennis (Notodonta Scitipennis) · N. siberica · N. sikkima · N. simplaria (Notodonta Simplaria) · N. stigmatica · N. stragula · N. sugutanii · N. tarburi · N. torva · N. trachitso · N. trithophus · N. trithopus · N. tritophus · N. tritophus tiefi · N. truncata · N. uniformis · N. uruparius · N. zebra · N. ziczac

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Further Reading

• A hand-book to the order Lepidoptera. By W.F. Kirby London, E. Lloyd, limited, 1896-1897. ENG url p. 267.
• Acta Soc. pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. Helsinki, Societas. ENG url p. 29.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, ENG url p. 457, p. 458.
• Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Wien, Naturhistorisches Museum [etc.] GER url p. 311.
• Annales de la Société entomologique de France. Paris: La Société, FRE url p. 260.
• Annales de la Station limnologique de Besse. Clermont-Ferrand: La Station, 1909- FRE url p. 189.
• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 143, p. 164.
• Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift. Berlin: Berliner Entomologischer Verein, 1857-1913. GER url p. 109.
• British entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances By John Curtis. London, Printed for the author, 1823-40. ENG url p. 12, p. 18, p. 34, p. 95, p. 96.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) ENG url p. 223.
• Compendium der Helminthologie. Ein Verzeichniss der bekannten Helminthen, die frei oder in thierischen Körpern leben, geordnet nach ihren Wohnthieren, unter Angabe der Organe, in denen sie gefunden sind, und mit Beifügung der Litte von O. von Linstow. Hannover: Hahn'sche Buchhandlung, 1878. GER url p. 307.
• Die Nahrpflanzen der in Europa lebenden Raupen der Grossschmetterlinge und ihre Bewohner / systematisch geordnet von Fr. Meyer. Frankfurt am Main: Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1919. GER url p. 18, p. 19, p. 21.
• Die Pflanzen und Raupen Deutschlands: Versuch einer lepidopterologischen Botanik / von O. Wilde. Berlin: E.S. Mittler, 1860-1861. GER url p. 137.
• Die Pflanzenfeinde aus der Klasse der Insekten. Ein nach Pflanzenfamilien geordnetes Handbuch sämmtlicher auf den einheimischen Pflanzen bisher beobachteten Insekten zum Gebrauch für Entomologen, Insektensammler, Botaniker, Land- und Forstwirthe un von J. Stuttgart, J. Hoffmann, 1874. GER url p. 549, p. 635.
• Diptera danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark / by William Lundbeck. Copenhagen: G.E.C. Gad, 1907-27. DAN url p. 441, p. 442.
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• Fauna, flora & geology of the Clyde area, ed. by G.F. Scott Elliot, Malcolm Laurie and J. Barclay Murdoch. Glasgow, Pub. by the local committee for the meeting of the British Association, 1901. ENG url p. 240.
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Notes

Contributors

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 30, 2008:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• SysTax, Lobbecke Museum Dusseldorf
• SysTax, SysTax
• University of Helsinki, Department of Applied Biology, European Moth Nights
• inatura - Erlebnis Naturschau Dornbirn, inatura - Erlebnis Naturschau Dornbirn

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2964305
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Lep-60283.0
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14368598
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 631390

Footnotes

1. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxonomy?f=31&sci=Notodontidae&com=Prominents [back]
2. Mean = 281.440 meters (923.360 feet), Standard Deviation = 347.160 based on 3,080 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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