Moths of North Carolina
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View PDFNotodontidae Members:
Notodonta Members:
4 NC Records

Notodonta scitipennis Walker, 1862 - Finned-willow Prominent


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Taxonomy
Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: NotodontidaeSubfamily: NotodontinaeTribe: NotodontiniP3 Number: 930015.00 MONA Number: 7926.00
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Beadle and Leckie (2012)Online Photographs: MPG, BugGuide, iNaturalist, Google, BAMONA, GBIF, BOLD                                                                                 
Adult ID Requirements: Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens.
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution:
County Map: Clicking on a county returns the records for the species in that county.
Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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Habitats and Life History
Habitats: Records from Alleghany County come from a site located next to a small river. We also have an historic record from Brevard (Wray, 1967), which is located along the French Broad River, although we do not know of any records for Populus from Transylvania county.
Larval Host Plants: Confirmed larval host plants are Poplars (Miller et al., 2018) - View
Wikipedia
See also Habitat Account for General Poplar Forests
Status in North Carolina
Natural Heritage Program Status:
Natural Heritage Program Ranks: G5 SH
State Protection: Has no legal protection, although permits are required to collect it on state parks and other public lands.
Comments: We have only four historic records for this species in North Carolina