Identification
Adult: head and posterior dorsal thorax yellow; forewing with about 10 clear oval patches surrounded by brown shading near middle of wing; band of clear elongate cells along outer margin, separated by brown veins; basal half of wing with whitish veins edged in brown; antennae black, unmarked, shorter than length of forewing; legs yellowish basally, dark distally
Range
Newfoundland to South Carolina, west to Alababma, north to Saskatchewan
In a PDF doc
here, Pescador and Rasmussen state: "The occurrence of the species in Florida is doubtful. Larvae of
Hydatophylax are easily confused with those of
Pycnopsyche."
Remarks
page creation based on Simon Carmichael's identification of
this imageInternet References
questionable presence in Florida; PDF doc (Manuel Pescador and Andrew Rasmussen, Florida A&M U.)
distribution (NatureServe Explorer)
presence in Minnesota; list (R.W. Holzenthal and M.P. Monson, Insects of Cedar Creek, Minnesota)
presence and date in Ohio; PDF doc (David MacLean and Bonnie MacLean, Ohio Academy of Science, Ohio State U.)
presence in Ontario; list H. argus is the only
Hydatophylax species listed in Ontario [search for "Hydatophylax"] (NHIC; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources)
Contributed by
Robin McLeod on 30 September, 2006 - 1:57pm
Last updated 30 September, 2006 - 2:59pm