Species Autographa mappa - Wavy Chestnut Y - Hodges#8912

8912

Autographa mappa (Grote(1) & Robinson, 1868)

Plusia mappa Grote & Robinson, 1868

Phytometra mappa

Phylogenetic sequence # 931194 (2)

Wingspan 3-4 cm. (3)

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length 1.5-1.7 cm. (4)

Adults - forewing chestnut brown with numerous wavy bands and lines of darker brown and black in very distinctive pattern; scattered silver gold metallic scales in lower parts of AM and PM lines, as well as along basal line and outlining parts of reniform and orbicular spots; stigma prominent, two-part, white or gold, in center of wing, the basal segment an open u-shape, and the distal part an infilled oval or spot; hindwing brownish-gray in outer half, paler in basal half, with checkered fringe and whitish median band; antennae simple and similar in both the sexes (adapted from description at E.H. Strickland Museum(3)).

Newfoundland to British Columbia, south in the east to Massachusetts and Wisconsin, south in the west to Oregon and Colorado.

Open woodlands, clearings and edges, bogs and fens; adults are nocturnal and come to light (3)

Adults fly from June to August in Alberta. (3)

Larvae feed on nettle (Urtica spp.) (5), buckthorn (Frangula spp. =Cascara) (Prentice, 1962) and blueberry (Vaccinium spp.).

One generation per year. (3)

Eichlin, T.D. & H.B. Cunningham, 1978. The Plusiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of America north of Mexico, emphasizing genitalic and larval morphology. USDA Tech. Bulletin 1567: 1-122. (6)

Grote, A.R. & C.T. Robinson, 1868. Descriptions of new Lepidoptera, no. 4. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 2: 204

Lafontaine, J.D. & R.W. Poole, 1991. The Moths of America North of Mexico, Fascicle 25.1. The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. p. 85; plate 2, fig. 13. (7)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, plate 49, fig. 34; p. 278. (4)

Pacific Northwest Moths (8)

Moth Photographers Group (9)

E.H. Strickland Museum (3)

distribution in Canada; list of provinces of occurrence (U. of Alberta, using CBIF data)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (10)