Common name: Girlfriend underwing.
Hodges#: 8878.
Identification: Rfw 18.9 mm. Lower half of frons glossy, only ND Catocala
with black pm band absent from the dhw and present on vhw.
Similar species: 11012, 11012.1.
Distribution: Southern Canada, eastern U.S., southwestward to Arizona.
Hosts: Larvae feed on Quercus spp.– oaks, in ND, Q.
macrocarpa Michx.– Bur oak.
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ND, Richland Co., West I allotment, Sheyenne Natl.
grasslands. 16- VIII- 1996, Hg/UV lt., coll. C. Jordan.
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