Species Lacinipolia anguina - Snaky Arches - Hodges#10372

10372

Lacinipolia anguina (Grote, 1881)

Phylogenetic sequence # 933019

ANGUINA: from the Latin "anguis" (snake); the origin of the common name Snaky Arches, but I don't know what it refers to

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included 64 species of the genus Lacinipolia in America north of Mexico.(1)

Forewing length 11-12 mm.(2)

Adult: forewing pale gray with darker gray median shading; lines and spots black; black dash near anal angle usually broken by pale gray or white ST line; inner half of reniform spot filled with reddish-brown; PM line with large arc near inner margin; hindwing whitish to pale gray with darker shading distally and dark veins

all of southern Canada and most of northern United States, south in the plains to Texas; absent from southeast and southwest. (3)

Moth Photographers Group - large range map with collection dates.

adults usually fly from April to July (2)

(or to October in Maryland)

unrecorded(2); reared on raspberry leaves (Jim Sogaard)

one generation per year, possibly two in the south

late instar larva, adult

rare to locally common

Lacinipolia incurva has a less contrasting median area and is generally found south and west of the range of anguina. (4)

Powell, J.A., & P.A. Opler 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 56.9, p. 305.(2)

Moth Photographers Group (5)

Pacific Northwest Moths

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

Moths of Maryland - pinned adult.

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