''Doa ampla'' is a
moth of the
Doidae
Doidae is a family of Lepidoptera first described by Julian P. Donahue and John W. Brown in 1987. Species in Doidae had previously been placed in the Arctiidae, Lymantriidae and the Dioptidae.
The family includes about six species, which are fo ...
family. It is found from western
Texas and
Colorado to
Arizona, south into
Mexico.
The
wingspan is about 37 mm.
Larvae have been recorded on feeding on the leaves of ''
Stillingia texana''. They probably feed on other ''
Stillingia
''Stillingia'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described for modern science as a genus in 1767. The genus is native to Latin America, the southern United States, and various islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Toothleaf ...
'' species as well.
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