Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cenopis reticulatana (Clemens, 1860)
Croesia ? reticulatana Clemens, 1860
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Sparganothis reticulatana
Explanation of Names
Specific epithet from the Latin
reticulatus (made like a net), from "rete" (a net); refers to the forewings "minutely reticulated with reddish orange."
(1)Identification
Adult: forewing yellow, covered by netlike pattern of orange lines; AM line dark brown, diagonal, thicker at costa, terminating in triangular blotch at inner margin; PM line begins with blotch at costa, then divides to form Y shape with top pointing toward inner margin; hindwing white with variable yellowish shading along outer margin. [adapted from description by Lynn Scott]
Range
Records from much of the United States and Canada, absent from the Pacific states and much of the southwest.
(3)Season
Univoltine
on Block Island, RI, with adult records from early July to late August.
(4)Food
Larvae are leafrollers on plants from several families. Have been recorded on alder, apple, ash, aster, birch, beech, blueberry, cherry, maple, oak, pear.
(5) Also
Culver's Root (
Veronicastrum virginicum);
Wooly Buckthorn (
Sideroxylon lanuginosum);
Amur honeysuckle (
Lonicera maackii);
Bergamot (
Monarda fistulosa);
Golden Alexanders (
Zizia aurea)
See Also
Sparganothis Fruitworm Moth (
Sparganothis sulfureana) forewings form a dark thick X pattern when wings are held together at rest, and PM line does not divide into a Y shape.
Print References
Clemens, B., 1860. Contributions to American lepidopterology - No. 6.
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12:
353.
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Covell, p. 421, plate 59-13
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