Common name: Mother underwing.
Hodges #: 8806.
Identification: Rfw 37 mm, fw with apical, tornal, and basal
dashes, vfw virtually lacking orange or red scales, vhw with lunate
discal spot.
Similar species: 8805, 8812, 8822.
Distribution: Canada and temperate United States, south to Utah
in the Rockies.
Hosts: Larvae feed on Populus– Poplar and Salix– willow.
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ND, Cass Co., N Fargo. 30- VIII- 1993, bait
trap, coll. G. Fauske.
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