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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) » Epione Underwing - Hodges#8773 (Catocala epione)

Species Catocala epione - Epione Underwing - Hodges#8773

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

Epione Underwing C. epione - Catocala epione

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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 epione (Epione Underwing - Hodges#8773)

Hodges Number

8773

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Catocala epione (Drury, 1773) (1), (2), (3)

Phalaena epione Drury, 1773

Noctua marginata Fabricius, 1775 (597)

Phylogenetic sequence #930764

Explanation of Names

Epione was a mythological Greek healer, wife of Aesclepius, mother of Hygeia, Panacea, Machaon and several others.

Numbers

110 species in the genus for North America north of Mexico. (4), (5)

Identification

Hindwings sooty black with sharp white fringes. On forewings, the outer (reniform) spot is smudged and inconspicuous, the inner (subreniform) spot elongated and teardrop-shaped with the sharp end pointed posteriorly.

Range

Maine and southern Ontario south to Florida, west to Minnesota, Kansas, and Texas.

Type locality: New York.

Season

Flies June through September

Food

Adults can be attracted to bait. Larvae feed on hickory foliage, esp. Shagbark.

Life Cycle

Eggs laid on tree bark. Pupates under leaf litter.

Remarks

Fairly active; reportedly will fly to the ground when disturbed.

Print References

Barnes, Wm. & J.H. McDunnough, 1918. Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1): 6; Pl.1, f.16; Pl.13, f.3 (larva) (3)

Drury, D., 1773. Illustrations of natural history 1: 47; Pl.23, f.2.

Lafontaine J.D., and B.C. Schmidt, 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America North of Mexico. p.30.(5)

Internet References

Moth Photographer's Group (6)

Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (7)

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems

Legion of Night by Theodore D. Sargent

BAMONA

Dru Drury (1724-1804)

Works Cited

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

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

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

4.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

5.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

7.	Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Joshua Stuart Rose, Maury Heiman, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 10 March, 2018 - 8:27pm

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