Moths of North Carolina
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Elaphria georgei (Moore & Rawson, 1939) - George's Midget Moth

Taxonomy
Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: NoctuidaeSubfamily: NoctuinaeTribe: ElaphriiniP3 Number: 932232.00 MONA Number: 9680.00
Comments: One of fourteen species in this genus that occur in North America north of Mexico (Lafontaine and Schmidt, 2010), nine of which have been recorded in North Carolina
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: Our records come primarily from wet habitats, including bottomland forests, peatlands, wet savannas, and lakeshores. Both closed-canopy forests are used as well as open shrublands and forblands.
Larval Host Plants: Larvae have been reared in captivity on bark algae and fungi (T. MacCabe, cited in Wagner et al., 2011) - View
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See also Habitat Account for General Wet-Mesic Forests
Status in North Carolina
Natural Heritage Program Status:
Natural Heritage Program Ranks: G4 S3S4
State Protection: Has no legal protection, although permits are required to collect it on state parks and other public lands.
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 Photo Gallery for Elaphria georgei - George's Midget Moth

49 photos are available. Only the most recent 30 are shown.

Recorded by: Mark Basinger on 2024-04-02
Wilson Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: Mark Basinger on 2024-04-02
Wilson Co.
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Recorded by: Mark Basinger on 2024-04-02
Wilson Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: Dean Furbish on 2024-04-01
Wake Co.
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Recorded by: Dean Furbish on 2024-03-30
Wake Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: Dean Furbish on 2024-03-29
Wake Co.
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Recorded by: David George, Jeff Niznik on 2023-04-12
Chatham Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: Stephen Hall on 2023-04-11
Orange Co.
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Recorded by: David George on 2023-04-05
Durham Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: David George, Stephen Dunn on 2023-04-05
Orange Co.
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Recorded by: Dean Furbish on 2023-04-04
Wake Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: David George on 2023-03-24
Durham Co.
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Recorded by: David George, Stephen Dunn on 2023-03-24
Orange Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: John Petranka on 2023-03-24
Orange Co.
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Recorded by: Dean Furbish and Joy Wiggins on 2023-03-24
Wake Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: Jeff Niznik on 2022-04-13
Wake Co.
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Recorded by: David George, L. M. Carlson on 2022-04-12
Orange Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: Dean Furbish and Joy Wiggins on 2022-04-02
Wake Co.
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Recorded by: John Petranka on 2022-03-30
Orange Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: David George, L. M. Carlson on 2022-03-30
Orange Co.
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Recorded by: Dean Furbish and Joy Wiggins on 2022-03-30
Wake Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: Dean Furbish and Joy Wiggins on 2022-03-22
Wake Co.
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Recorded by: Gary Maness on 2021-04-27
Guilford Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: Gary Maness on 2021-04-27
Guilford Co.
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Recorded by: Mark Shields on 2021-04-08
Onslow Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: Dean Furbish on 2021-04-08
Wake Co.
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Recorded by: Gary Maness on 2021-04-06
Guilford Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: David L. Heavner on 2021-03-28
Chatham Co.
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Recorded by: Mark Shields on 2020-04-09
Onslow Co.
Comment: 		Recorded by: Gary Maness on 2020-04-04
Guilford Co.
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