Common name: Listed here as 'Putnam's
looper moth.'
Hodges #: 8950.
Identification: Rfw 13.2 mm, fw metallic orange-brown, stigma
usually as two
oblong silvery spots, proximal spot extending onto discal cell. Fw inner margin not
concave before tornus.
Similar species: 8907, 8911,
8952,
8953.
Distribution: Alaska to Labrador, southward to north temperate U.
S., in Rockies to Colorado.
Hosts: Larvae feed on Poaceae– grasses.
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MI, Washtenaw Co., Pinckney Prairie, T1S R3E Sec. 10.
Hg/UV light, 28- IX- 1995, coll. J. Legge.
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