Haploa contigua

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Callimorphina
Genus: Haploa
Species: Haploa contigua
Name

Haploa contigua (Walker, 1855); List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 3: 651–652 (Hypercompa contigua).

Type locality: “United States.”
Synonyms

Haploa contigua lumbonigera Dyar, 1902; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 52 (List N. Amer. Lepid.): 84. Type locality: “Atl. States”
lumbonigra Seitz, 1919, missp.

References

Dyar, H.G., 1902: A list of North American Lepidoptera and key to the literature of this order of insects. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 52: i-xix, 1-723.
Walker, F., 1855: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 3: 583–775, Edward Newman: London.

Haploa contigua, the neighbor moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in eastern North America,[2] from Quebec to the mountains of Georgia and west to South Dakota, Arkansas and Mississippi.[3]

The wingspan is 36–49 mm. The forewings are cream to whitish with some brown lines. The inner borders of the forewings are edged with brown. Adults are on wing from late May to early August.[4] There is one generation per year.

Larvae have been recorded feeding on the leaves of Corylus americana. The species overwinters in the larval stage.[5]
References

Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University.
Savela, Markku. "Haploa contigua (Walker, 1855)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
Butterflies and Moths of North America
BugGuide

Bug Life Cycles - Documenting the life cycles of insects

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.