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Black Witch Moth (Ascalapha odorata), Salt Marsh Moth (Estigmene acrea) latin dict size=27   common dict size=512
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Black Witch Moth (Ascalapha odorata), Salt Marsh Moth (Estigmene acrea)

Description English: Plate III.
1. EREBUS ODORA (=Ascalapha odorata).
2. ♀. 3. ♂. SPILOSOMA ACREA (=Estigmene acrea).
Date 1770 (plates). 1837 (text).
Source Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Vol. I.
Author Plates: Dru Drury (1725–1803). Text: John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustrations_of_Exotic_Entomology_I_03.jpg

The black witch moth (Ascalapha odorata) is a large bat-shaped, dark-colored nocturnal moth, ranging from Brazil to the southern United States. It is the largest noctuid in the continental United States. In the folklore of many Central American cultures, it is associated with death or misfortune.

Estigmene acrea, the salt marsh moth or acrea moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in North America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Colombia and Mexico.

Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Species: Ascalapha odorata (Linnaeus, 1758)); Estigmene acrea (Drury, 1773)

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