Species Hypenodes fractilinea - Broken-line Hypenodes - Hodges#8421

8421

Hypenodes fractilinea (Smith, 1908)

Thalpochares fractilinea Smith, 1908

wingspan 11-14 mm

Adult: tiny (for a noctuid) long-winged light gray or dirty white moth with variable darker gray markings; forewing lines usually incomplete and marked by a series of dots; darker median shade often present; terminal area usually darker, and reniform spot usually marked by two dark dots; hindwing light brownish-gray, unmarked

[adapted from description at U. of Alberta]

Genitalia:

♀

♂

Newfoundland to Alberta and adjacent states, south in the east to Florida and Oklahoma

mixed and deciduous woodlands; adults are nocturnal and come to light

adults fly from May to October in mid-latitudes; June to August in Alberta

unknown

Smith, J.B. 1908 New species and genera of the Lepidopterous family Noctuidae for 1907. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 18: 125

Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (1)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (2)

Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)(3)

E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum (4)

Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (CBIF)

presence in Florida; list (John Heppner, Florida State Collection of Arthropods)

presence in Newfoundland; PDF doc citation (Douglas Ferguson, courtesy Yale U.)

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