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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Xylenini » Xylenina » Eucirroedia » Scalloped Sallow - Hodges#9952 (Eucirroedia pampina)

Species Eucirroedia pampina - Scalloped Sallow - Hodges#9952

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Eucirroedia pampina? - Eucirroedia pampina

Scalloped Sallow Moth - Eucirroedia pampina

The beauty that sheltered from the wind. ID, please. - Eucirroedia pampina - female

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)

Tribe Xylenini

Subtribe Xylenina

Genus Eucirroedia

Species pampina (Scalloped Sallow - Hodges#9952)

Hodges Number

9952

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eucirroedia pampina (Guenée, 1852)

Cirroedia pampina Guenée, 1852

Synonyms

Eucirroedia pampinella (Strand, 1916)

Eucirroedia brunneoochracea (Strand, 1916)

Phylogenetic sequence # 932609 (1)

Explanation of Names

PAMPINA: from the Latin "pampinus" (tendril) - perhaps the jagged subterminal line or scalloped wing margin resembled a tendril to the describer? (Guenee in 1852)

Numbers

The only species in this genus in North America. (1)

Size

Wingspan 36-44 mm. (2)

Forewing length 17–19 mm. (3)

Identification

Adult: forewing dull yellow to orange with scalloped outer margin; reniform spot (and sometimes orbicular spot) shaped like dumbbell; AM and PM lines sinuous and mirror images of each other; subterminal line jagged; median area often darker than basal and distal area; hindwing pale pink with yellowish shading near base and dark fringe

Range

British Columbia to Nova Scotia, south to Florida, west to Arkansas and Wisconsin.

Season

Adults fly from August to December; peak numbers in September & October.

Food

The larvae feed on leaves of black cherry, choke cherry, maple, box elder.

Life Cycle

Larva; adult

Remarks

Locally common. (2)

Print References

Covell, p. 116 & plate 24 #15 (2)

Internet References

Pacific Northwest Moths (3)

Moth Photographers Group (4)

pinned adult images (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)

pinned adult image (Larry Line, Maryland)

common name reference plus larval food plants and flight season (Ohio State U.)

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (5)

Works Cited

1.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

2.	Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America Charles V. Covell, Jr. 2005.

3.	Pacific Northwest Moths

4.	North American Moth Photographers Group

5.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 3 August, 2005 - 10:17pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Steve Morris
Last updated 19 December, 2023 - 8:51pm

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