Moths of North Carolina
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18 NC Records

Tolype minta Dyar, 1906 - Southern Tolype Moth

Taxonomy
Superfamily: Bombycoidea Family: LasiocampidaeSubfamily: MacromphaliinaeP3 Number: 870026.00 MONA Number: 7675.00
Comments: One of eleven species in this genus that occur in North America (Franclemont, 1973), four of which have been recorded in North Carolina.
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Covell (1984)Online Photographs: MPG, BugGuide, iNaturalist, Google, BAMONA, GBIF, BOLDTechnical Description, Adults: Franclemont (1973)                                                                                 
Adult Markings: Tolype minta is a moderately small, predominantly white Lasiocampid. The head, sides of the thorax, and the abdomen are usually all white, with a dark patch of metallic scales in the dorsal area of the thorax and with gray shading at the tip of the abdomen in some individuals. The ground color of the wings is also white, with a contrasting band of gray in the subterminal area; the antemedian and postmedian lines are also light gray with a white filling (Franclemont, 1973). The hindwings are a pure white with a suffusion of gray near the inner margin. Tolype notialis is similar in size and pattern and has a white head and sides of the thorax but is otherwise a darker gray in all of the areas where minta is white. Another similar Lasiocampid is Artace cribraria, which is usually whiter than T. minta, lacks the gray band in the subterminal area, and possesses dotted lines rather than the more continuous gray lines found in minta.
Adult Structural Features: The male genitalia are similar but recognizably distinct from those of notialis and laricis, with longer socii and their basal plates less extended (see Franclemont, 1973, for illustrations).
Adult ID Requirements: Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens.
Immatures and Development: Larvae do not appear to have been found in the wild or reared; we know of know descriptions.
Larvae ID Requirements: Identifiable only through rearing to adulthood.
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution: Appears to be restricted to the southern half of the Coastal Plain, including the Fall-line Sandhills.
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Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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