Species Apamea scoparia - Hodges#9365

9365

wingspan about 43 mm, based on photo by Jim Vargo at MPG

Adult: forewing dull reddish-brown; upper half of reniform spot filled with ground color, lower half dark gray to blackish, and distal edge with pale scales, including two converging small whitish ovals in lower corner of reniform spot; PM line faint, dark, toothed; subterminal line indistinct, pale, irregular; dark scaling along veins; hindwing dirty gray, darker toward outer margin, with dark veins and diffuse discal lunule; fringe dull yellow

genitalia:

Newfoundland to British Columbia and adjacent northern states, north to Northwest Territories, Yukon, and perhaps Alaska, south in the west to California and Utah

adults fly from June to September in Alberta

Apamea apamiformis forewing has a dark anal dash extending to the PM line, a dark claviform spot, and no reddish tint; A. cogitata and A. dubitans forewings have a pale reniform spot

the dark form of Apamea amputatrix (formerly considered a distinct species, Apamea castanea) also has two converging small whitish ovals in lower corner of reniform spot, but its forewing is much darker than A. scoparia, and lacks a reddish tint

Mustelin, T., R.H. Leuschner, K. Mikkola, and J.D. Lafontaine. 2000. Two new genera and thirteen new species of owlet moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), mainly from southern California. Proc. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. (36):6.

Moth Photographers Group (MPG)

Pacific Northwest Moths

Barcode of Life (BOLD)

pinned adult image by G.G. Anweiler, and flight season in Alberta (Strickland Entomological Museum, U. of Alberta)

pinned adult image labeled as "Apamea lateritia" (Insects of Quebec)

presence in Utah listed as "Agroperina lateritia" (Joel Johnson, Utah Lepidopterists Society)

presence in California listed as "Agroperina lateritia" (U. of California at Berkeley)

links to images of the Palearctic species Apamea lateritia (Markku Savela, FUNET)