Peridea ferruginea

Peridea ferruginea, the chocolate prominent, is a species of prominent moth in the family Notodontidae.^[1][2] It was described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1864 and is found in North America.^[2] In 2018, Miller et al. distinguished Peridea bordeloni, whose larvae specialize on river birch Betula nigra, as a separate species, though P. bordeloni has previously been identified as P. ferruginea.^[3]

Peridea ferruginea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Notodontidae
Genus:	Peridea
Species:	P. ferruginea
Binomial name
Peridea ferruginea (Packard, 1864)
Synonyms
Lophodonta ferruginea Packard, 1864

The MONA or Hodges number for Peridea ferruginea is 7921.^[4][5]