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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Nolid Moths (Nolidae) » Risobinae » Baileya » Doubleday's Baileya - Hodges#8969 (Baileya doubledayi)

Species Baileya doubledayi - Doubleday's Baileya - Hodges#8969

Classification · Hodges Number · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Doubleday's Baileya - Baileya doubledayi

Doubleday's Baileya - Hodges#8969 - Baileya doubledayi

Doubleday's Baileya Baileya doubledayi - Baileya doubledayi

8969 Doubleday's Baileya (Baileya doubledayi) - Baileya doubledayi

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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 Nolidae (Nolid Moths)

Subfamily Risobinae

Genus Baileya

Species doubledayi (Doubleday's Baileya - Hodges#8969)

Hodges Number

8969

Numbers

uncommon to rare, especially southward

Size

Wingspan 24-28 mm

Identification

forewing with slightly wavy white postmedial line, and black teardrop-shaped reniform spot (1).

Range

Eastern North America: Nova Scotia, Quebec, south to northern Florida, west to Wisconsin, Mississippi (1)

occurs west to Saskatchewan, Texas

Season

adults fly from April to October

Food

Larvae feed on leaves of alder (Alnus spp.)

Life Cycle

two generations per year

See Also

lines more prominent, and pattern more contrasting than other Baileya species; B. ophthalmica is the most similar, but lacks the large black reniform spot and white PM and ST lines (compare images of both species)

Print References

Covell, p. 132, plate 31 (1)

Internet References

live adult images (Lynn Scott, Ontario)

adult image (Larry Line, Maryland)

pinned adult image (CBIF)

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

flight season; PDF doc plus food plant and life cycle (Macrolepidoptera of Mont Saint-Hilaire Region, McGill U., Quebec)

flight season and food plant (Ohio State U.)

distribution in Canada (CBIF data, presented by U. of Alberta)

presence in Texas; list (Dale Clark, Moths of Dallas County, Texas)

Key to Baileya species; PDF doc (Vernon Brou, courtesy Yale U.)

Works Cited

1.	Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Contributed by Cotinis on 20 January, 2006 - 12:14am
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Robin McLeod, marcie oconnor
Last updated 10 May, 2015 - 9:03pm

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