Common name: No accepted common name,
listed here as 'Long-winged dune moth.'
Hodges #: 10689.
Identification: Rfw 14.17 mm, ground color gray-brown,
overlaid with yellow scales, most densely along costa; pm line marked by
dark dots at veins; hw fuscous with white fringe. Frons smooth, protibiae
with lateral and mesal setae, metatarsi with four rows of ventral setae.
Antennae of % strongly
bifasciculate-pectinate.
Similar species: 9449, 10438,
10681, and 10811.
Distribution: western Great Plains from southern Canada to northern
Texas.
Hosts: Larval have been reported feeding on the roots of wild rose
(Seamans 1925).
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ND McKenzie Co., N Unit. Theodore Roosevelt Natl.
Park. 28- VII- 1955.
P. & P. Rindge. |