Explanation of Names
Author of genus is Packard, 1864. Apate was a Greek goddess of deceit. She was a daughter (by parthenogenesis!) of Nyx, Night, who was daughter of Chaos. Lodes is Greek (?) for veins, as in lodes of ore. So this is the "deceitful veins" moth? (Based on Internet searches, it makes sense, but this is somewhat speculative.)
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists two species for North America:
A. pudefacta and
torrefacta.
1 species in Canada: [A. torrefacta] (CBIF)
Range
A. torrefacta is found in eastern North America. A. pudefacta is found in the southwestern US, apparently.
Internet References
Moths of SE Arizona -- pinned adult images of
A. pudefacta
classification in family Bombycidae, subfamily Apatelodinae (Brian Pitkin, Butterflies and Moths of the World)
Contributed by
Cotinis on 12 July, 2004 - 2:47pm
Additional contributions by
Robin McLeodLast updated 21 February, 2006 - 10:42am
