Peridea ferruginea
Species of moth
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Peridea ferruginea, the chocolate prominent, is a species of prominent moth in the family Notodontidae.[1][2] It was described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1864 and is found in North America.[2] In 2018, Miller et al. distinguished Peridea bordeloni, whose larvae specialize on river birch Betula nigra, as a separate species, though P. bordeloni has previously been identified as P. ferruginea.[3]
| Peridea ferruginea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Genus: | Peridea |
| Species: | P. ferruginea |
| Binomial name | |
| Peridea ferruginea (Packard, 1864) | |
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The MONA or Hodges number for Peridea ferruginea is 7921.[4][5]
