Species Xestia infimatis - Hodges#10972

10972

forewing length 12-19 mm, 14-16 mm most frequent (1)

The most heavily streaked and brownest of vernilis species group; forewing varies from pale buff with dark brown streaking to gray with extensive blackish-gray streaking; hindwing varies from dirty white to dark smoky brown with darker shading on the veins, discal spot and outer third of the wing. Males tend to be browner than females. More detailed description, including genitalia, is available in MONA Fascicle 27-3 that is available at the link in citations below. (1)

southern British Columbia south to western Montana and southern California; in California it occurs eastward to foothills of Sierra Nevada Mountains (1)

dry coniferous forest and sagebrush (1)

mid-August to mid-October (1)

Xestia finatimis is paler, but otherwise very similar and overlaps much of the range of infimatis (1)

Xestia verniloides is very similar but has an extremely limited range in southwestern British Columbia and northwest Washington state. (1)

Xestia vernilis is similar but is found further east in the Rocky Mountain Region. (1)

Moth Photographers Group (2)

Pacific Northwest Moths (3)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (4)