Species Apamea inficita - Lined Quaker - Hodges#9369

9369

ssp. indela

3.4-3.6 cm wingspan

A medium-sized rusty-brown or yellow-brown, or ocassionaly pink moth with few markings, the most prominent being the dark, somewhat smeared and elongated reniform spot. The postmedian and subterminal lines are usually visible as faint thin dark lines, edged with paler scales. The hindwings are like the forewings in color, but paler on the basal half and darker on the distal half, with an indistinct discal mark. Male antennae setose; female simple. Sexes similar. Paradiarsia littoralis is similar but smaller and has dark grey or black hindwings and bipectinate male antennae. Until recently treated as A. indela or A. popofensis, which are now treated as subspecies of A. inficita (Troubridge and Lafontaine, in press). Older literature (i.e. Bowman, 1951) places inficita in the genus Agroperina. Species text at E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

genitalia

Newfoundland west to British Columbia, north to the Yukon and Northwest Territories and south at least to Colorado.

Mesic meadows and woodland edges

July and August

E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum Text and pinned photographs

MPG Pinned photographs