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EARLY STAGES OF FIDONIA NOTATARIA, Walk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

L. W. Goodell
L. W. Goodell
Affiliation:
Amherst, Mass.
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Eggs.—Oblong, covered with hexagonal depressions and bright green in color. Length 0.6 mil.; width 0.3 mil. Duration of egg stage 12 days.

Young Larva.—Length 2 mil.; head twice as wide as the body, round and deep ochre yellow; body dull yellowish green with a faint paler stigmatal stripe.

Mature Larva.—Body of uniform thickness, deep green with a narrow sub-dorsal and stigmatal white stripe, and a dorsal greenish-white hair line; dorsal space pale green; ventral space yellowish green. Head brownish green with a lateral white stripe which is a continuation of the sub-dorsal stripe of the body. Length at rest 25 to 26 mil.; when crawling, 26 to 27 mil. Food plant, Pinus strobus. Duration of larva stage, 35 to 40 days. Described from 57 specimens.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 14 , Issue 10 , October 1882 , pp. 199 - 200
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1882

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