CATERPILLARS OF ARIZONA:

EARTHWATCH

AUGUST 2006

 
We collected over 583 individual caterpillars around SWRS

and in 18 plots. This included 17 families and about 53 species.

 

Family: number of species

Pyralidae: 3

Tortricidae: 1

Geometridae: 12

Hesperiidae: 3

Papilionidae: 1

Nymphalidae: 2

Lycaenidae: 1

Limacodidae: 3

Megalopygidae: 2

Notodontidae: 6

Arctiidae: 1

Lasiocampidae: 1

Lymantriidae: 1

Sphingidae: 3

Saturniidae: 1

Noctuidae: 11

Tenthrenididae: 1