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Fingered Dagger-moth

Apatela dactylina

Plate XVIII — Fingered Dagger-moth is Fig. 17
Plate XVIII — Fingered Dagger-moth is Fig. 17
Fingered Dagger-moth (detail)
Fingered Dagger-moth (detail)

Easily distinguished from the preceding species, which it resembles in the markings of the fore wings, by its smaller size and the white hind wings. It ranges from Canada to Virginia and westward to the Rocky Mountains. The caterpillar lives upon alder, willow, and birch.