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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Prominent Moths (Notodontidae) » Heterocampinae » Oedemasia » Black-blotched Prominent - Hodges#8011 (Oedemasia leptinoides)

Species Oedemasia leptinoides - Black-blotched Prominent - Hodges#8011

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Schizura leptinoides - Oedemasia leptinoides

Heteropacha rileyana - Hodges #7685 - Oedemasia leptinoides

Black-blotched Schizura - Oedemasia leptinoides

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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 Notodontidae (Prominent Moths)

Subfamily Heterocampinae

Genus Oedemasia

Species leptinoides (Black-blotched Prominent - Hodges#8011)

Hodges Number

8011

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Oedemasia leptinoides (Grote, 1864)

Coelodasys leptinoides Grote(1), 1864

Cecrita mustelina Packard, 1864

Phylogenetic sequence # 930104(2)

Explanation of Names

Oedemasia leptinoides (Grote, 1864), n. comb. in Becker (2014) (3), was formerly placed in the genus Schizura.

Size

Wingspan 35-42 mm.

Grote & Robinson (1867) reported the wingspan of one male as 1.6".

Identification

Adult: forewing medium to dark gray with a sharply defined dark basal streak, diffuse blackish blotch near center of wing and usually paler brownish shading toward inner margin; AM and PM lines double, indistinct; pale gray or whitish rectangular patch at apex; hindwing dirty white in male, and gray in female

Larva: body brown with prominent humps on first, fifth, and eighth abdominal segments; head strongly mottled with pattern coalescing into broad diffuse band to either side of midline; dorsum of thorax with dark patch widening toward head; dorsum of sixth and seventh segments with pale chevron

[description by David Wagner and Valerie Giles]

Range

Canada: NS to BC; USA: ME south to southern FL west to MN and TX in wooded areas with a disjunct population in western SD. (4)

Type locality (leptinoides): "Middles States".

Type locality (mustelina): Cambridge, MA.

Season

The main flight period is April to September; earlier start in Florida.

Food

The larvae feed on leaves of apple, beech, birch, hickory, oak, poplar, walnut.

Life Cycle

One or two generations per year.

Larva; pupa; adult

See Also

In Oligocentria semirufescens the forewing has a diffuse dark area on the base and lower inner margin of the forewing. There is no dark basal streak and no double pm line.

Print References

Grote, A.R. 1864. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3. p. 323; plate 4, fig. 2.

Grote, A.R. & C.T. Robinson 1867. Descriptions of America Lepidoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 1. p. 177; plate 4, fig. 33.

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (5)

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (6)

iNaturalist

Maryland Biodiversity Project

Mass Moths

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

3.	Checklist of New World Notodontidae (Noctuoidea) Becker, V.O. 2014. Lepidoptera Novae, 7(1): 1-40.

4.	Noctuoidea, Notodontidae (Part 2, Conclusion): Heterocampinae, Nystaleinae, Dioptinae, Dicranurinae Miller, J.S., D.L. Wagner, P.A. Opler & J.D. Lafontaine. 2021. The Moths of America north of Mexico, Fascicle 22.1B: 1-443.

5.	North American Moth Photographers Group

6.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 March, 2005 - 4:50am
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Steve Nanz, Maury Heiman, Ethan Kistler, marcie oconnor, Steve Morris
Last updated 13 July, 2024 - 5:32pm

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