Species Catocala concumbens - Pink Underwing - Hodges#8833

8833

Sleepy Underwing

Catocala concumbens Walker, [1858] (1), (2), (3), (4)

Catocala concumbens ab. hilli Grote, 1883 (43), (5), (3)

Catocala concumbens var. diana Hy. Edwards, 1880 (6)

Specific epithet from Latin meaning "to lie with sexually."

Wingspan 60-75 mm. (7)

Adult - forewing light brownish-gray, sometimes with greenish or turquoise tints; AM and PM lines thin, black, jagged; reniform and subreniform spots slightly paler than ground color; hindwing bright rosy-pink with broad black median and terminal bands; fringe white; antennae simple; sexes similar.

Nova Scotia to Alberta and adjacent northern states, south to Maryland and Nebraska.

Wooded riparian areas, mixed woods and edges, urban plantings; adults are nocturnal and come to light and sugar bait.

Adults fly from late July to early October. Larvae present in late spring and early summer.

Larvae feed on leaves of Populus tremuloides, P. deltoides and P. nigra) and willow (Salix). (8)

One generation per year; overwinters as an egg

larva; adult

Not to be confused with the Pink Underwing (Phyllodes imperialis), a catocaline moth found in Australia.

Barnes, Wm. & J.H. McDunnough, 1918. Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1): p.32; Pl.3, f.15; Pl.11, f.5 (larva). (4)

Walker, F., [1858]. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XIII - Noctuidae. British Museum (Natural History), p.1198. (1)

Moth Photographers Group (9)

Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (10)

E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum (7)

Maryland Moths

Moths of North Dakota

CBIF

BAMONA