Species Epirrhoe plebeculata - Hodges#7395

7395

Orange-winged Carpet

Epirrhoe plebeculata (Guenée, [1858])

Epirrhoe vivida Barnes & McDunnough, 1917

Cidaria rubrosuffusata Packard, 1871

Coremia plebeculata Guenée, [1858]

Phylogentic Sequence # 910239

wingspan 19-22 mm (based on four specimens)

Adult: forewing brown with white lines and dark yellowish or gold bands in AM and PM areas (some specimens all brown); median area darker, sometime blackish; discal spot oval, black; AM line slightly curved, almost straight; PM line irregular but with prominent lobe or double tooth near midpoint; ST line, if present, white, scalloped - hindwing mostly yellow or gold with dark fringe, scalloped blackish terminal line, and dark lines or markings along inner margin

Specimens identified by DNA analysis:

British Columbia to California, east to Nebraska, north to Saskatchewan (1)(2)(3)

adults fly from January to May

Subspecies:

Stamnodes topazata has extensive gold on the forewing (compare images of both species)

otherwise, the yellow or gold hindwings of E. plebeculata are distinctive

Wilipedia

Moth Photographers Group

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

presence in Utah; list (Joel Johnson, Utah Lepidopterists Society)

pinned adult images of three specimens, showing color variation (CBIF)

pinned adult image (G.G. Anweiler, Strickland Entomological Museum, U. of Alberta)

presence in California; list (U. of California at Berkeley)

distribution in Canada list of provinces (CBIF)