Scientific name: Ecpantheria scribonia (Stoll)
(Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)
Facts: This moth can be quite common under lights in some years.
The fuzzy caterpillars are often seen migrated across roads and they have black hairs with a pink body underneath.
There is confusion with the common name "leopard moth" which is also used for a moth in the
carpenter moth family Cossidae.
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Above photo credit: Bastiaan (Bart) Drees, Extension Entomology, Texas A&M University
