Saddled prominent

• French common name: Hétérocampe de l'érable
• Scientific name: Heterocampa guttivitta Walker
• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Insecta
• Order: Lepidoptera
• Family: Notodontidae

Distribution

• Manitoba
• New Brunswick
• Nova Scotia
• Ontario
• Quebec

Canadian Forest Service Publications

Saddled prominent

Diet and feeding behaviour

• Phyllophagous: Feeds on the leaves of plants.
  • Free-living defoliator: Feeds on and moves about freely on foliage.

Information on host(s)

Main host(s)

• American beech
• Grey birch
• Red maple
• Red oak
• Sugar maple
• White birch
• White elm
• Yellow birch

Photos

Adult at rest (wingspan: 40-50 mm)

Thérèse Arcand

Pinned adult

Thérèse Arcand

Half-grown larva

Thérèse Arcand

Pupa (length: 20 mm) and its cocoon

Thérèse Arcand

Eggs on maple leaf

Thérèse Arcand

Defoliation seen in a maple grove

Claude Monnier