Pygarctia spraguei

Pygarctia spraguei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Genus: Pygarctia
Species: P. spraguei
Binomial name
Pygarctia spraguei
(Grote, 1875)
Synonyms
  • Euchaetes spraguei Grote, 1875
  • Euchaetes conspicua Neumoegen, 1890

Pygarctia spraguei, Sprague's Pygarctia, is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found from on the Great Plains from southern Canada to Texas, westward to Utah, eastward to Indiana and Louisiana.[1]

The wingspan is about 31 mm.

The larvae feed on Euphorbia species.

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