Common name: listed here as ‘Scurf-pea
flower moth.’
Hodges #: 11132.
Identification: Rfw 13.8 mm, fore tibiae with a series of both
inner and outer ‘claws,’ fw with ‘hour-glass’ pattern outlined
in white by am and pm lines, hw orange with black marginal band and
small discal lunule, a pale color morph lacks black on hw.
Similar species: 11072.1, 11117, 11128, and 11131.
Distribution: Great Plains from southern Canada to Texas,
eastward on coast to Florida and westward in south to Arizona.
Hosts: larvae feed on Psoralea spp.– Scurf pea.
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SD, Minnehaha Co., Sioux Falls. 18- VII- 1977, yard
lt., coll. G. Fauske.
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