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Hyphantria cunea (Drury)
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Hyphantrea cunea is very similar to Spilosoma congrua, which is usually immaculate or nearly immaculate. Spilosoma congrua has a more robust body and the forewing apex is less pointed.
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Occurs across most of the U.S. and southern Canada, although absent from central and western Alberta and south-eastern B.C.
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occurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
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Canada
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Year-round
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Year-round
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Shrubby areas in the eastern and southern prairie ecoregion of Alberta.
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An extremely polyphagous species, recorded primarily from trees and shrubs.
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June.
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There are 68 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 69
Specimens with Barcodes: 149
Species With Barcodes: 1