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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Orthosiini » Kocakina » Intractable Quaker - Hodges#10502 (Kocakina fidelis)

Species Kocakina fidelis - Intractable Quaker - Hodges#10502

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)
Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Orthosiini
Genus Kocakina
Species fidelis (Intractable Quaker - Hodges#10502)
Hodges Number
10502
Other Common Names
Fourlined Green Fruitworm (larva)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Himella intractata
Kocakina is a proposed replacement name for Himella Grote 1874 - see Remarks section below
Numbers
the only species in this genus in North America listed at All-Leps
Size
wingspan 25-35 mm (1)
larva length to 30 mm
Identification
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
Moth Photographers Group (MPG)
Barcode of Life (BOLD)
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)
presence in Texas; list (Dale Clark, Texas)
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)
revision of Coreidae genus Himella; article abstract (H. Brailovsky and E. Barrera, trophort.com)
Works Cited
1.Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America
Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2005.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 11 April, 2007 - 9:50am
Additional contributions by Blocky, Steve Morris
Last updated 26 January, 2023 - 11:42am

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