Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Kocakina is a proposed replacement name for Himella Grote 1874 - see Remarks section below
Himella intractata is a synonym of
Himella fidelis according to
All-Leps Numbers
1 species in North America listed at
All-LepsIdentification
Adult: forewing grayish to reddish-brown; lines yellowish, broken; spots outlined with yellow; heavy black spot on basal line, fainter black spots on AM and PM lines near inner margin; hindwing grayish-brown, darker toward outer margin
(1)
Larva: body green with prominent white subdorsal stripe and four thin white lateral lines; head green, unmarked
Range
Quebec and Maine to Florida, west to Texas and Kansas
Habitat
dry woodlands; adults are nocturnal and come to light
Season
adults fly from March to May, and again in July
larvae present May to July
Food
larvae feed on leaves of oak, elm, and flowering crabapple
(1); also reported on hickory and cherry
Life Cycle
overwinters as a pupa; one or two generations per year
Remarks
The name
Himella was first introduced by Dallas in 1852 for bugs of the family Coreidae. Since it is still used as a valid generic name in Heteroptera, and is an older name than the
Himella proposed by Grote in 1874, Ozdikmen and Seven proposed that the Lepidopteran
Himella be replaced by
Kocakina (see
PDF doc)
Print References
Handfield, Louis. 1999. Les Guides des Papillons du Quebec. Broquet. 662 pp. [species account, p. 427; photo of adult male and female, p. 106]
Internet References
pinned adult image of
H. fidelis (CBIF)
adult images of
H. fidelis (Larry Line, Maryland)
species account; PDF doc of
H. fidelis with description and photos of larva and adult, distribution, foodplants (P.J. Chapman and S.E. Lienk, Cornell U., New York)
live larva image of
H. fidelis plus description, foodplants, seasonality (David Wagner and Valerie Giles, Caterpillars of Eastern Forests, USGS)
presence in Florida; list (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)
distribution in Canada Quebec only (U. of Alberta, using CBIF data)
proposed replacement name for Himella; PDF doc (Huseyin Ozdikmen and Selma Seven, Mun. Ent. Zool. 2006)
Contributed by
Robin McLeod on 11 April, 2007 - 8:41am
Additional contributions by
BlockyLast updated 11 April, 2022 - 6:47pm
