Phyprosopus callitrichoides

Phyprosopus callitrichoides, the curve-lined owlet, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1872.^[1] It is found in the US from New Hampshire to Florida, west to Montana and Texas.

Phyprosopus callitrichoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae (?)
Genus:	Phyprosopus
Species:	P. callitrichoides
Binomial name
Phyprosopus callitrichoides Grote, 1872
Synonyms
Phyprosopus nasutaria Zeller, 1872

The wingspan is 28–35 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August.

The larvae are described as "fantastically bizarre"^[2] and feed on greenbrier species (see Smilax).