Species Bulia deducta - Hodges#8614

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Bulia deducta (Morrison, 1875)

Syneda deducta Morrison, 1875

Syneda pavitensis Morrison, 1875

Cirrhobolina incandescens Grote, 1875

Cirrhobolina mexicana vulpina Grote, 1875

Cirrhobolina mexicana albina Grote, 1875

Phylogenetic sequence # 930885

Powell & Opler (2009) listed the forewing length 14-17 mm. (1)

Wingspan 3.4-3.8 cm. (2)

Crumb (1956) reported the larvae mature to 24 mm. (3)

Pogue & Laughlin (2002) state that Bulia deducta and similaris are indistinguishable and can only be separated by genitalia and by geographic distribution in areas where their ranges do not overlap.

Powell & Opler (2009) described the larva having head brown and black, body grey with blackish stripes. (1)

Genitalia:

Resident throughout the southwestern states from California(4) and Nevada, east to Missouri and Mississippi, south into Mexico; it is a migrant in northwestern United States, and rarely Canada, with single or very few records from each of the 4 western provinces; also recorded from Florida(5), probably as a migrant, as the host plant (mesquite) doesn't occur in Florida.

Pogue & Laughlin (2002) have range maps in PDF.

Adults fly from March to October in the southwest; most numerous in July and August.

Larvae feed on mesquites (Prosopis) (Pogue & Laughlin, 2002).(6)

Bulia similaris Drasteria fumosa Drasteria eubapta Drasteria pallescens Forsebia perlaeta Melipotis novanda Melipotis indomita

Crumb, S.E. 1956. The larvae of the Phalaenidae. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin, 1135: 274. (3)

Pogue, M.G. & A.C. Laughlin, 2002. A revision of the genus Bulia (Walker Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 56(3): 129-151. (PDF)

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. pl. 44, figs. 5-6; p.258 (1)

Moth Photographers Group (7)

E.H. Strickland Museum (2)

Moths of Southeastern Arizona (8)

pinned adult image (CBIF)

distribution in Canada as a non-resident in western provinces [omits Manitoba but the Canadian specimen examined by Pogue and Laughlin was collected in Manitoba] (CBIF)