Identification
Adult: forewing uniformly dull brownish-red sometimes overlaid with dark gray shading which partly obscures AM and PM lines composed of series of pale yellowish dots; reniform spot inconspicuous, filled with gray; hindwing dirty white, shading to gray toward outer margin; top of thorax dark red; abdomen yellowish with red wash
Range
coast to coast across southern Canada and northern United States
Habitat
dry coniferous forests; adults are nocturnal and come to light and bait
Season
adults fly from May to July
Food
larval foodplant unrecorded
See Also
German Cousin (
Sideridis congermana) forewing is darker brown with paler reniform spot and more contrasting markings on remainder of wing; thorax has dull orange middorsal stripe (
compare images of both species at CBIF)
Internet References
pinned adult image and flight season (G.G. Anweiler, U. of Alberta)
pinned adult images and collection site map (All-Leps)
common name reference; PDF doc (David Wagner, Macrolepidopteran Fauna of Mount Everett, Massachusetts)
distribution in Canada listing all 10 provinces (U. of Alberta, using CBIF data)
Contributed by
Robin McLeod on 22 July, 2005 - 10:09pm
Last updated 24 February, 2007 - 5:31pm
