Moths of North Carolina
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Tarache terminimaculata (Grote, 1873) - Curve-lined Bird-dropping Moth

Tarache terminimaculata
Taxonomy
Superfamily:
Noctuoidea		 Family:
Noctuidae		Subfamily:
Acontiinae		Tribe:
Acontiini		P3 Number:
931351		 MONA Number:
9145.00		 Other Common Name:
Curve-lined Acontia
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Covell (1984; as Acontia terminimaculata)Online Resources: 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.
Tarache terminimaculataAlamance Alexander Alleghany Anson Ashe Avery Beaufort Bertie Bladen Brunswick Buncombe Burke Cabarrus Caldwell Camden Carteret Caswell Catawba Chatham Cherokee Chowan Clay Cleveland Columbus Craven Cumberland Currituck Dare Davidson Davie Duplin Durham Edgecombe Forsyth Franklin Gaston Gates Graham Granville Greene Guilford Halifax Harnett Haywood Henderson Hertford Hoke Hyde Iredell Jackson Johnston Jones Lee Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison Martin McDowell Mecklenburg Mitchell Montgomery Moore Nash New%20Hanover Northampton Onslow Orange Pamlico Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Person Pitt Polk Randolph Richmond Robeson Rockingham Rowan Rutherford Sampson Scotland Stanly Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania Tyrrell Union Vance Wake Warren Washington Watauga Wayne Wilkes Wilson Yadkin Yancey
Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

Click on graph to enlarge 		Image showing flight dates by month for High Mountains greater than 4,000 feet, Low Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain: adults.
Habitats and Life History
Habitats: Our records all come from the edges of coastal freshwater marshes.
Larval Host Plants: D.F. Schweitzer has found larvae on Seashore Mallow (Kosteletzkya pentacarpos) (Wagner et al., 2011). Other mallows might also be used but records from basswood (Tilia) seem unlikely given the strongly coastal distribution of this species. - View
Wikipedia
See also Habitat Account for Coastal Freshwater and Low-Salinity Marshes
Status in North Carolina
Natural Heritage Program Status: [SR]
Natural Heritage Program Ranks: GNR SNR [S1S2]
State Protection: Has no legal protection, although permits are required to collect it on state parks and other public lands.
Comments: The populations of this coastal species are likely to be permanent resident in North Carolina but it is still very poorly known despite the frequent surveys that have been conducted at several of the sites where it occurs

 Photo Gallery for Tarache terminimaculata - Curve-lined Bird-dropping Moth

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Tarache terminimaculataRecorded by: Morgan Freese on 2022-06-09
New Hanover Co.
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