Species Hypena palparia - Mottled Hypena - Hodges#8444

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Variegated Snout-moth

Hypena palparia (Walker, 1861)

Bomolocha palparia Walker, 1861

Phylogenetic sequence # 930565

Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) listed 29 species of the genus Hypena in America north of Mexico. (1)

Wingspan 27-33 mm.

Adult: forewing with large dark brown median patch that extends to inner margin (often lighter brown toward inner margin); basal and outer parts of forewing paler, mottled (pale areas darker in male than in female; female shows greater contrast between dark median area and pale subterminal area); apical dash broken; hindwing variably light to dark grayish-brown.

All of United States and southern Canada (Nova Scotia to Florida(2), west to California(3), north to British Columbia); however, the species name does not appear on moth lists from Arizona and Texas (1, 2, 3)

Mature mixed and deciduous woods; adults are nocturnal and attracted to light.

Adults fly from April to October in the south; May to August in Ohio; June and July in Alberta.

Larval hosts include: (4)

Hop-Hornbeam, Ostrya virginiana

Hazel, Corylus spp.

Two generations per year.

Larva; larva; pupa; adult

in Baltimore Bomolocha (Hypena baltimoralis), median patch does not extend to inner margin of forewing.

some other species of Hypena are also similar

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Pacific Northwest Moths