Species Hypena madefactalis - Gray-edged Hypena - Hodges#8447

8447

Gray-eyed Bomolocha

Gray-edged Hypena

Hypena madefactalis Guenée, 1854

Bomolocha madefactalis (Guenée, 1854)

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 29 species of the genus Hypena in America north of Mexico. (1)

wingspan 25-32 mm

Adult: male forewing grayish to blackish-brown; female forewing light grayish-brown with pinkish-gray in basal and subterminal areas (Covell, 1983); antemedial (AM) line dark brown with pronounced zigzags, sometimes hard to see in dark specimens; median is darkest part of forewing, shaded darkest just inside postmedial (PM) line; orbicular spot a black dot; PM line wavy; subterminal (ST) line marked by a color change, the area distal to it being lighter; light patch at apex, with dark inner border describing a diagonal line between ST line and outer margin; hindwing uniformly medium brown

[adapted from description by Lynn Scott]

Quebec and Maine south to Georgia, west to Arkansas, north to Wisconsin and Ontario

deciduous woods and wood edges where host plant grows

adults fly from April to August in the south; May or June to August in the north

larvae feed on leaves of Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) - and on Butternut (Juglans cinerea) in areas beyond the range of Black Walnut

one generation per year in the north

larva on Black Walnut; older larva; pupa; adult

Hypena appalachiensis

Sordid Bomolocha - Hypena sordidula has the forewing more uniformly dark grayish-brown with less visible lines; no darker shading inside of the PM line.

Moth Photographers Group (2)

adult images (Larry Line, Maryland)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)