Common name: Brown hooded-owlet.
Hodges #: 10202.
Identification: Rfw 18.8 mm, fw wood brown, with longitudinal
streak along cubital vein and extending to outer margin; tegula with an
elongate scale tuft which is everted at rest forming a ‘cowl.’ See Cucullia
key.
Similar species: 10190, 10194,
10197, 10198, 10200, and
10201.
Distribution: temperate eastern U. S. and southern Canada, west
to Saskatchewan in the north.
Hosts: Aster– Asters and Solidago– goldenrods,
larvae in later instars feed on flowers.
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ND, Cavalier Co., Pembina gorge, 11 mi. W. Walhalla.
14- VIII- 2001, Hg/UV light, coll. G. Fauske.
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