Species Apamea inficita - Lined Quaker - Hodges#9369

9369

ssp. inficita, indela & conradi (1)

forewing length = 15-22 mm (1)

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

Additional descriptions as three subspecies can be found in MONA Fascicle 26-9 at link in citations below. (1)

Newfoundland west to British Columbia, north to the Yukon and Northwest Territories and south thru Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. (1)

northern prairies and open coniferous woodlands (1)

late June to mid-September (1)

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

Pacific Northwest Moths

E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum Text and pinned photographs