Hypsopygia binodulalis, the pink-fringed dolichomia moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus Hypsopygia. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1872 and is found in the US from Texas to Florida, as well as in Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Pink-fringed Dolichomia Moth being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Genus
- Hypsopygia
- Species
- Hypsopygia binodulalis
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