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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Catocalini » Underwings (Catocala) » The Betrothed - Hodges#8770 (Catocala innubens)

Species Catocala innubens - The Betrothed - Hodges#8770

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Catocala innubens - The Betrothed - Hodges#8770 - Catocala innubens

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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 Erebidae

Subfamily Erebinae

Tribe Catocalini

Genus Catocala (Underwings)

Species innubens (The Betrothed - Hodges#8770)

Hodges Number

8770

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Catocala innubens Guenée, 1852 (1), (2), (3)

Catocala scintillans Grote & Robinson, 1866 (4), (2), (5)

Catocala innubens var. flavidalis Grote, 1876 (6), (7), (8), (5)

Catabapta innubens (9)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet from Latin meaning "betrothed."

Size

Wingspan 55-72 mm. (10)

Identification

Adult - forewing mottled gray, white, and brown; subreniform spot usually white with pale bar passing through it; vague blackish bar from base to outer margin, darkest below apex; in form "scintillans", forewing completely dark brown to blackish except pale band beyond ST line, and pale strip along inner margin near base. Hindwing black with orange bands and fringe in both forms. [adapted from description by Charles Covell]

Range

Southern Ontario and Quebec to Florida, west to Texas, Wisconsin and Minnesota. (10)

Holotype male: "Amerique septentrionale". (5)

Season

Adults fly from June to September.

Food

Larvae feed on leaves of: (11)

honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos)

black walnut (Juglans nigra)

Life Cycle

One generation per year; overwinters as an egg laid on tree bark in the fall.

Larva; adult

See Also

Catocala micronympha) has a broken blackish shade curving from costa through reniform spot to outer margin; the form "grisela" is similar to the innubens form "scintillans" but lacks a pale strip along inner margin near base of forewing.

Print References

Barnes, Wm. & J.H. McDunnough, 1918. Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1): 5; Pl.7, f.9-11; Pl.11, f.10 (larva). (3)

Guenée A. & J.B. Boisduval, 1852. Vol. 7. Noctuélites, tome 3. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Spécies général des lépidoptères. Roret, Paris, 98. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (12)

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems

Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (10)

Maryland Moths

CBIF

Dallas Butterflies

Achille Guenée (1809–1880)

Works Cited

1.	Histoire naturelle des insectes. Spécies général des lépidoptères. Vol. 7. Noctuélites, tome 3. Achille Guenée & Jean Baptiste Boisduval. 1852. Roret, Paris, 441 pp.

2.	On the North American species of Catocala. Augustus Radcliffe Grote. 1872. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4: 1-20.

3.	Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. William Barnes, James Halliday McDunnough. 1918. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1).

4.	Lepidopterological notes and descriptions - no. 2. Augustus Radcliffe Grote & Coleman T. Robinson. 1866. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 6: 1-30, Pl.3,4.

5.	Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). III. Gall, Lawrence F. & David C. Hawks. 2002. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 56(4): 234-264.

6.	Remarks on North American Noctuidae with descriptions of new species A. R. Grote . 1874. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 5: 89-98.

7.	New moths from Arizona, with remarks on Catocala and Heliothis. Augustus Radcliffe Grote. 1881. Papilio 1(7): 153-168.

8.	Notes on some species of Catocala. William Beutenmüller . 1903. Bulletin of the AMNH, 19(19): 505-510.

9.	The genus Catocala. George. D. Hulst. 1884. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 7(1): 14-56.

10.	Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala

11.	HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database

12.	North American Moth Photographers Group

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 18 March, 2006 - 8:53am
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 12 March, 2018 - 7:07pm

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