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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Catocalini » Underwings (Catocala) » Ulalume Underwing Moth - Hodges#8789 (Catocala ulalume)

Species Catocala ulalume - Ulalume Underwing Moth - Hodges#8789

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Erebidae

Subfamily Erebinae

Tribe Catocalini

Genus Catocala (Underwings)

Species ulalume (Ulalume Underwing Moth - Hodges#8789)

Hodges Number

8789

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Catocala ulalume Strecker, 1878 (1), (2)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for Edgar Allen Poe's 1847 poem Ulalume.

Size

Wingspan 60-75 mm. (3)

Range

Eastern United States, from Pennsylvania south to Georgia, west to Texas, Illinois and Michigan. (3)

Lectotype: [Dallas, Texas, USA]. (2)

Season

Flies late May to September

Food

Larval hosts are hickory, including shagbark hickory (Carya ovata). (3)

Print References

Strecker, H., 1877. Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations (v. 14). Owen's Steam Book & Job Printing, p.132 (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (4)

Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (3)

Ferdinand Heinrich Herman Strecker (1836-1901)

Works Cited

1.	Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations (v. 14-15). Herman Strecker. 1877. Owen's Steam Book & Job Printing.

2.	Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). I. Gall, Lawrence F. & David C. Hawks. 1990. Fieldiana. Zoology. 59: 1-16.

3.	Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 2 April, 2016 - 8:51pm
Additional contributions by Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 March, 2018 - 10:02pm

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