Hahncappsia mancalis - Hahncappsia neomarculenta

Moved

Moved from Hahncappsia neobliteralis.

Nice image, but not likely Hahncappsia neobliteralis. According to Monroe (1) that species is known from Ipomoea and on segment A9 the pigmentation of common pinaculum of setae D2 is interrupted middorsally and there is no black pigment on D1 + SD1 and L.

… George Smiley, 12 September, 2022 - 11:23am

Moved

Moved from Pyraustinae.

Without dissection or DNA barcode, I would consider the ID tentative. That said both your larva and adult seem to match the descriptions in Munroe (1976) (1) and Capps (1967)(2). Your larva is also a good match for DNA barcoded BOLD Sample ID MLL-00733. We do not have descriptions of all larvae in the genus and adults require dissection for positive ID.

… Steve Nanz, 1 August, 2021 - 5:57am

Moved

Moved from Hahncappsia mancalis.

… Steve Nanz, 1 August, 2021 - 5:24am

That's fine

The other cat was found on Morning Glory, so that should help people separate the two.

… john and jane balaban, 4 July, 2021 - 11:48am

Do you find this cat

on Verbesina alternifolia?

… john and jane balaban, 4 July, 2021 - 9:46am

I was told the plant is Verbe

I was told the plant is Verbesina helianthoides, but plant identification is not my strong suit. I have pictures somewhere, but finding them will be another story.

… Ashley Bosarge, 4 July, 2021 - 11:43am

If you can put the info in fields two and three

of the location fields, that would be great. And the dates are missing from all the images.
But even greater is that someone finally raised one of these cats to maturity. How certain are you of the adult ID? Because we have about twenty images of the caterpillar that we have been waiting to move to a species page!
We have another series identified as mancalis, but it looks to be a different cat :(

… john and jane balaban, 3 July, 2021 - 5:16pm

Verbesina alternifolia known host...?`

to H. neobliteralis?
I have an identical cat (not submitted to bugguide, but here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92157124/edit
Plant is definitely V. alternifolia.
I'd love to know if this is a confirmed host plant for this species, please?

… becksnyc, 26 May, 2022 - 3:31pm

I'll try to work on getting e

I'll try to work on getting everything filled in tomorrow. David Wagner identified the moth via photos and a specimen that I sent to Sam Jaffe.

… Ashley Bosarge, 3 July, 2021 - 9:17pm

county field needs correction here and elsewhere

… v belov, 3 July, 2021 - 11:44am

Sorry, it was automatically f

Sorry, it was automatically filled in when I opened the form. I think I've removed them all individually but didn't see how to do a group edit so hopefully I didn't miss any.

… Ashley Bosarge, 3 July, 2021 - 12:02pm