Google
WWW MPG website only

Digital Guide to Moth Identification

Erebidae
930759 – 8649   Ascalapha odorata (Linnaeus, 1758)
             Black Witch

© Maury Heiman
Similar Species:
  • Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy:
  • odorata Linnaeus 1758 (Phalaena) - MONA 1983: 8649
  • agarista Cramer [1777] (Phalaena)
  • odora Linnaeus 1764 (Phalaena)
  • References
    Ascalapha odorata
    © Randy Newman - f.
    Ascalapha odorata
    © Ronnie Gaubert
    Ascalapha odorata
    © Maury Heiman - f.
    Ascalapha odorata
    © Carol Wolf
    Ascalapha odorata
    - 160mm – © Jim Vargo
    Ascalapha odorata
    © Henning von Schmeling

    Ascalapha odorata
    © Carol Wolf

    Ascalapha odorata
    © Carol Wolf

    Ascalapha odorata
    © Salvador Vitanza LG
    Size: 96 mm
    Ascalapha odorata
    © Salvador Vitanza LG
    Size: 96 mm

    Moth Photographers Group  at the  Mississippi Entomological Museum  at the  Mississippi State University

    Send suggestions, or submit photographs to Webmaster — Moth Photographers Group

    Database design and scripting support provided by Mike Boone