Common name: Painted lichen moth.
Hodges #: 8090.
Identification: Rfw13.8 mm, fw and marginal band of hw blue-gray,
fw streaks yellow-orange, hw ground color pink; thorax and abdomen gray.
Similar species: 8089, 8092,
8074.
Distribution: southern Canada and U. S. east of the Rockies.
Hosts: Larvae feed on mosses and lichens on trees.
Note: as of this writing, the USGS website has the names of
8090 and 8089 transposed with respect to the photographs, consequently
distributional data from that site are questionable.
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SD, Minnehaha Co., Sioux Falls, 12- VIII- 1980, coll. G. Fauske.
Head and prothorax showing vari-colored pattern of
vertex, ptagiae, tegulae and mesoscutum. |