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Isogona tenuis, the thin-lined owlet, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1872.[1] It is found from Ontario, Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey, south to Florida and Texas.

Isogona tenuis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Isogona
Species:	I. tenuis
Binomial name
Isogona tenuis (Grote, 1872)

The wingspan is 28–30 millimetres (1.1–1.2 in).[2] Adults are on wing from May to August in the north and from April to October in the south.

The larvae feed on Celtis species.

References

• Wagner, David L.; Schweitzer, Dale F.; Sullivan, J. Bolling & Reardon, Richard C. (2011). Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691150420.

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