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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Antlions, Lacewings and Allies (Neuroptera) » Owlflies (Ascalaphidae) » Ululodes » Four-spotted Owlfly (Ululodes quadripunctatus)
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Four-spotted Owlfly - Ululodes quadripunctatus - female
Copyright © 2005 Cotinis

Four-spotted Owlfly - Ululodes quadripunctatus - Female
Hwy 55 and Sedwick, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
July 20, 2005
Size: 32 mm body length
Found at a light, captured, chilled, and posed. The plump abdomen and the wings not being pedunculate shows this is a female. This is the only owlfly I found in the summer of 2005--I found several in 2004 at my usual locales. Spotting on the wings is variable, but I think is only present in the female. Perhaps the spotting wears off? See Mike Boone's photo, where there are no spots on the wings:



The wings are rather worn in that photo as well. Hard to say--this species is not well-documented in popular literature, and I haven't seen the technical descriptions.

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Contributed by Cotinis on 1 November, 2005 - 9:05am

#35985 Identification -- Ululodes quadripunctatus (female)
This is the owlfly Ululodes quadripunctatus (Burmeister, 1839). The name "Ululodes quadrimaculatus", while a synonym of U. quadripunctatus, is incorrect under the rules of nomeclature.
… John D. Oswald, 18 August, 2006 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

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