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Caterpillar ID requested

Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 9:13 pm
by millerd
Can anyone provide an ID for this caterpillar? It was feeding on the pink vetch-like plant (a vetchling of some sort?).
I think it has to be a moth of some sort as though it is superficially similar to various pierids, it doesn't match any of them.
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Thanks,

Dave

Re: Caterpillar ID requested

Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 10:05 pm
by Matsukaze
Can't comment on the larva (though it looks like a noctuid to me) but the foodplant is grass vetchling, Lathyrus nissolia

Re: Caterpillar ID requested

Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 10:13 pm
by Essex Bertie
Could be an Angle Shades on Grass Vetchling. But not totally convinced.