Species Globia subflava - Subflava Sedge Borer - Hodges#9450

9450

Formerly placed in the genus Archanara

3.5-4.0 cm wingspan

A medium-size moth with pale yellow brown to deep rust brown forewings with a darker shade along the cubital vein and a prominent row of dark dots marking the postmedian line where it crosses the veins, and a dark shade in the middle of the outer margin. The hind wings are tan to almost white, much paler than the forewings. Similar to Capsula oblonga, but subflava is generally much lighter in color, has much paler hindwings and lacks the row of terminal dots on the forewings.

Nova Scotia west to BC, south to New Jersey in the east and Utah and California in the west.

Found in and near marshes and other wetlands

July-Sept

The larvae are borers in cattails, rushes and bulrushes (Typha, Scirpus).

The above is information is taken from the E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Other photographs at MPG

Pacific Northwest Moths