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.

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

some other species of Hypena are also similar

Moth Photographers Group

Pacific Northwest Moths

BOLD - Barcode of Life Data Systems

E. H. Strickland Museum

Lynn Scotts' Lepidoptera images

E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum, U. of Alberta

pinned adult image (CBIF)