Moths of North Dakota

Common name: no accepted common name, listed here as 'Packard's bicolored dart.'

Hodges #: 10992.

Identification: Rfw 16.94 mm, fw ferruginous brown (%) to gray brown (&), hw fuscous with orange fringe. Labial palpi with long ventral hair-scales. Thoracic vestiture of hair; protibiae with mesal and lateral rows of setae- the latter hidden in long fringe; metatibiae with lateral row of setae, metabasitarsus with four rows of setae..

Similar species: 9373, 10438, 10461, 10524, 10689, 10780, 10928, 11018, 11027, 11029, 11039, 11043, and 11049.1.

Distribution: transcontinental from Alaska to Newfoundland and the northern United States, southward in the Rockies to New Mexico and on the Pacific coast to Northern California.

Hosts: in laboratory rearing on Alnus- alder, Betula-- birch, Achilea milfolia-- yarrow, Prunus-- cherry and others (Lafontaine 1998); Taraxacum officinale-- dandelion, Trifolium--clovers, and Plantago-- Plantains (Rockburne & Lafontaine 1978).

Note: The junior subjective synonym, Pachnobia ferruginoides Smith 1890, was described from the Black Hills of South Daklota.

ND Slope Co., 15- VI- 1966. J. Oberfoell.

ND Sargent Co., UV lt. trap. 10- VI- 1986.
G. Fauske

Head of P. litoralis showling shaggy labial palpi.

Protibia of P. literalis showing mesal row of setae and lateral row of setae hidden by fringe.