Key features

• Coloration: Body is dull yellow, wings are yellow/cream and pink.  There can be much variation in the intensity of the pink color, from very faded to very vibrant.  On the top wings, the yellow color occurs in a vertical band  or “V”, bordered on both sides by pink.
• Shape:  Top wings with a pointed tip, bottom wings rounded
• Wingspan: 3.4-5.2 cm
• Similar species: Pink Prominent has completely white bottom wings

When and where to find them

• Flight period in our area: late May to late July potentially
• Activity period: NOCTURNAL
• Host plant tree/shrubs:  Maples

Links to more photos of this species

Butterflies and Moths of North America Flickr pool

BugGuide.net

Bugwood Network images

Links to more information about this species

National Resources Canada

Auburn University

Nature in the Ozarks

Sources
Tuskes, P.M., J.P. Tuttle, M.M. Collins. (1996) The Wild Silk Moths of North America: A Natural History of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, NY.
Covell, C.V. (2005) A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. Martinsville, VA.