Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Callopistria cordata – (Ljungh, 1825)
Eriopus monetifera - Guenée, 1852
Explanation of Names
CORDATA: "cordate" means heart-shaped; perhaps a reference to the rounded triangular shapes on the forewing
Numbers
Five species of
Callopistria are found in America north of Mexico
(a)Identification
forewing orange or reddish-brown, mottled with yellow, and having two large silvery-white spots near the middle or the wing, plus a line of several smaller spots in the subterminal area; small yellowish patch at apex
hindwing pale grayish with yellowish fringe along outer edge
Season
adults fly from June to August, earlier (March) in southern United States
Print References
Lafontaine JD, Schmidt BC (2010) Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico.
p. 71 (a) (PDF download)
Covell, p. 131, plate 26 #14
(1)
Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico
(2)Internet References
Moth Photographers Group - species account with photos of larvae, living and pinned adults.
BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems - species account with photographs of pinned adults and DNA sequence
Canadian Biodiversity (pinned adult image)
pinned adult image (James Adams, Dalton State College, Georgia)
Moth Photographers Group - photo of pinned adult and related species.
