About Phyprosopus callitrichoides Grote, 1872
Phyprosopus callitrichoides, commonly known as the curve-lined owlet, is a moth species belonging to the family Erebidae. This species was first formally described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1872. In the United States, it can be found from New Hampshire in the northeast to Florida in the southeast, stretching westward to Montana in the northwest and Texas in the southwest. This moth has a wingspan that ranges from 28 to 35 millimeters. Adult individuals are active and can be seen in flight from May through August each year. Its larvae are described as "fantastically bizarre", and they feed on species of greenbrier, which belong to the genus Smilax.
