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Species Baileya doubledayi - Doubleday's Baileya - Hodges#8969

Classification · Hodges Number · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Doubleday's Baileya - Baileya doubledayi

Doubleday's Baileya - Hodges#8969 - Baileya doubledayi

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

No Taxon (Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea

Family Nolidae (Nolid Moths)

Subfamily Risobinae

Genus Baileya

Species doubledayi (Doubleday's Baileya - Hodges#8969)

Hodges Number

8969

Numbers

uncommon to rare, especially southward

Size

Wingspan 24-28 mm

Identification

forewing with slightly wavy white postmedial line, and black teardrop-shaped reniform spot (1).

Range

Eastern North America: Nova Scotia, Quebec, south to northern Florida, west to Wisconsin, Mississippi (1)

occurs west to Saskatchewan, Texas

Season

adults fly from April to October

Food

Larvae feed on leaves of alder (Alnus spp.)

Life Cycle

two generations per year

See Also

lines more prominent, and pattern more contrasting than other Baileya species; B. ophthalmica is the most similar, but lacks the large black reniform spot and white PM and ST lines (compare images of both species)

Print References

Covell, p. 132, plate 31 (1)

Internet References

live adult images (Lynn Scott, Ontario)

adult image (Larry Line, Maryland)

pinned adult image (CBIF)

pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)

flight season; PDF doc plus food plant and life cycle (Macrolepidoptera of Mont Saint-Hilaire Region, McGill U., Quebec)

flight season and food plant (Ohio State U.)

distribution in Canada (CBIF data, presented by U. of Alberta)

presence in Texas; list (Dale Clark, Moths of Dallas County, Texas)

Works Cited

1.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths By Charles V. Covell

Contributed by Cotinis on 20 January, 2006 - 12:14am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod
Last updated 20 January, 2006 - 10:02am

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