Identification
forewing pale mouse-gray; lines faint, double, incomplete except for a broad single median line which passes through faint reniform spot, then angles toward costa; no orbicular spot
hindwing white with grayish-brown border in male; solid grayish-brown in female
[description by Charles Covell]
Range
Ontario and Maine to North Carolina, west to Missouri, north to Michigan; also recorded in Florida, California, and South Dakota
Season
adults fly in May and again in September and October
Food
the only recorded larval food plant is tobacco but the species occurs in many areas where tobacco is not present
Remarks
no images of live adults or larvae found on Internet, as of 4 Oct 2005
Internet References
pinned adult image of female, appearing on
this page (Strickland Entomological Museum, U. of Alberta)
pinned adult image of male from North Carolina (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)