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Species Hypena sordidula - Sordid Hypena - Hodges#8448

Sordid Bomolocha - Hypena sordidula - male

Hypena sordidula (Sordid Snout) - Hypena sordidula

Hypena madefactalis or sordidula? - Hypena sordidula - female

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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 Hypeninae

Genus Hypena

Species sordidula (Sordid Hypena - Hodges#8448)

Hodges Number

8448

Numbers

rare

Size

wingspan 24-30 mm

Identification

Adult: male forewing dark grayish-brown; AM, PM, and ST lines wavy, indistinct, contrasting little against ground color; median area uniformly colored (not darker toward PM line, as in Gray-edged Bomolocha); small pale spot where PM line meets costa, and speckled wedge of slightly paler color at apex; hindwing dark grayish-brown; female similar but paler, with distinctly paler terminal area of forewing, and lighter hindwing

Range

Quebec and Maine to northern Florida, west to Louisiana and Kansas, north to Manitoba

Habitat

deciduous woods, riparian areas

Season

adults fly from May to August

Food

Woodnettle (Laportea) (1)

Life Cycle

one generation per year

Life cycle images:

final instar caterpillar, adult

See Also

Hypena appalachiensis

Gray-edged Bomolocha - Hypena madefactalis has the forewing less uniformly colored, and lines more noticeable; ST area bi-colored, and dark shading present just inside of the PM line.

Internet References

Images and Info (Moth Photographers Group)

pinned adult images (BOLD Systems - Barcoding Life)

Butterflies and Moths of North America

Works Cited

1.	Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America David L. Wagner. 2011. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 9 June, 2006 - 4:52pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, marcie oconnor, Kyhl Austin, Robert H. Biagi
Last updated 25 April, 2022 - 2:40pm

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