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Contributions to a Check List of the Lepidoptera of Fallen Timbers Environmental Center in Outagamie County, Wisconsin

(Macrolepidoptera Families: Thyatiridae, Drepanidae, Geometridae, Epiplemidae, Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Riodinidae, Nymphalidae, Mimallonidae, Lasiocampidae, Apatelodidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, and Noctuidae; also including: Hepialidae, Cossidae, Attevidae, Yponomeutidae, Zygaenidae, Limacodidae, and Thyrididae)

 

By Hugo L. Kons Jr.

 

Posted on the Web 8 September 2007

 

Most Recent Update: Feb. 2014

 

Note:  While this check list does not contain detailed information for the included species, an upcoming volume of the North American Journal of Lepidoptera Biodiversity will present phenology data, habitat data and analyses, hypotheses of habitat dependency for many of the included species, and other information and analyses.  To receive an e-mail notification when this volume becomes available, contact the author at hkonsjr@yahoo.com

 

Abstract:  I present a check list of 653 Lepidoptera species recorded from Fallen Timbers Environmental Center in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, including 642 species of Macrolepidoptera. 

           

Introduction:  Fallen Timbers Environmental Center (N 44°28.7' W 88°24.6') contains an extensive inland wetland hardwood forest with many open to shrubby wetland and sedge meadow openings.  Also present are sizable mesic meadows and fields as well as a man-made pond.  I have conducted extensive diurnal and nocturnal field work at this locality.

            I conducted surveys at Fallen Timbers primarily from 1989-1996, but I also have a small number of records from earlier.  Surveys were conducted from 1989-1991 with bait traps and diurnal searching.  From 1992-1995 (and once in 1996) I surveyed Fallen Timbers at night with UV lights and bait trails, in addition to continuing to conduct diurnal surveys. 

            I first produced check lists of Fallen Timbers Rhopalocera and nocturnal Macrolepidoptera in the early 1990s, but only as unpublished reports.  These check lists have been continuously updated over the years and the current check list probably approaches a thorough inventory of the species I have documented in the included families, although I still have backlog material.  In addition, some of the detailed survey data for Fallen Timbers appears in a variety of unpublished reports which have been distributed to land managers, the WI Department of Natural Resources, and various Lepidopterists.  This internet site is my first paper on Fallen Timbers Lepidoptera that is more widely available, but more detailed papers are planned for future volumes of the North American Journal of Lepidoptera Biodiversity.

 

Methods:  My surveys were conducted with UV sheets, UV traps, type P and F bait traps, bait trails, and diurnal collecting with nets and jars.  Follow this link for illustrations and a discussion of these survey methods. 

 

Voucher Specimens:  At least one voucher specimen of each species I report from Fallen Timbers is currently housed in my personal research collection, with the exception of Catocala subnata (housed in the research collection of Robert J. Borth).  In addition, I have made donations of Fallen Timbers Lepidoptera to the Milwaukee Public Museum, and Robert Borth has collected some material from Fallen Timbers as well.  I identified or verified specimens of all of the species I list from Fallen Timbers with the exception of some Eupithecia (determined by George Balogh).

 

Classification:    The classification primarily follows the Hodges et al. (1983) check list with the exception of Nymphalidae (concept of Harvey 1991) and Noctuidae, incorporating information from Poole (1995), Mitchell et al. (2006), and Zahiri et al. (2011, 2012a, 2012b, 2013).  For a more detailed discussion of adopted changes in classification from the Hodges et al. (1983) check list, see the Classification section of the Kons, Borth, and Barina Check List of Wisconsin Macrolepidoptera.  For those species listed in Hodges et al. (1983), I include the original check list number, which serves as a citation for the describing author and year of description. 

 

Results:  To date I can confirm the documented occurrence of 653 Lepidoptera species in the included families from Fallen Timbers Environmental Center, including 642 species of Macrolepidoptera.  These species are listed in the check list at the end of this report.  All but a few of the species on the following list were collected during my surveys of Fallen Timbers from 1989-1995.  The exceptions include Gaeides xanthioides (1983), Oligia hausta (1996), and Catocala subnata (collected in 2007 by Robert J. Borth). 

 

Discussion:  Fallen Timbers Environmental Center has one of the longest lists of documented Macrolepidoptera species among the eastern North America localities of comparable size for which I have compiled check lists or seen check lists in other publications.  However, usually the most important factor influencing relative differences in the lengths of documented Lepidoptera species lists between different sites is the amount of survey effort, rather than differences in species diversity in nature.  The only sites that I have surveyed as or more extensively than Fallen Timbers (with surveys conducted over multiple seasons and covering the full flight season when adult Lepidoptera are active) are Summer Street in Appleton (Outagamie County, Wisconsin), Mosquito Hill Nature Center (Outagamie County, Wisconsin), the American Entomological Institute property (Alachua County, Florida) and Southwest 20th Avenue in Gainesville (Alachua County, Florida).  Among these localities, Fallen Timbers has the second highest species list (nearby Mosquito Hill Nature Center has the longest).  Another locality in the Kons-Borth-Barina data set with a longer Macrolepidoptera species list is the barrens and oak-pine forests northwest of Dunbar.  This site was studied less extensively than Fallen Timbers, and thus probably really does have a more diverse Macrolepidoptera fauna.  The Fallen Timbers Macrolepidoptera species list contains about 46.3% of the verified Macrolepidoptera species listed in the Kons, Borth, and Barina Check List of Wisconsin Macrolepidoptera, or 44.1% of WI Macrolepidoptera species if I include literature records which I have not verified.

            Fallen Timbers is a very significant locality in terms of hosting populations of wetland dependent Lepidoptera species.  An upcoming NAJLB Volume on Wisconsin Lepidoptera by Kons, Borth, and Barina, includes analyses and preliminary lists of Wisconsin Macrolepidoptera species hypothesized to be dependent on particular habitat types, including wetlands and particular types of wetlands such as hydric hardwood forest and sedge meadow.  Potentially wetland dependent species recorded from Fallen Timbers include: Sthenopis argenteomaculatus, Gueneria similaria (hydric hardwood forest), Scopula cacuminaria, Scopula quadrilineata, Plemyria georgeii, Heterophleps triguttaria (hydric hardwood forest), Carterocephalus palemon, Ancyloxpha numitor, Poanes massasoit (sedge meadow), Poanes viator (sedge meadow), Euphyes dion (sedge meadow), Euphyes conspicua (sedge meadow), Hyllolycaena hyllus, Satyrium acadicum, Clossiana selene (primarily sedge meadow), Chlosyne harrissii (sedge meadow), Satyrodes eurydice (sedge meadow), Satyrodes appalachia (hydric hardwood forest), Macrochilo absorptalis, Macrochilo bivittata, Phalaenostola hanhami, Hypenodes caducus, Dyspyralis nigella (hydric hardwood forest), Ledaea perditalis, Catocala crataegi (hydric hardwood forest), Catocala alabamae (not range wide), Nola cilicoides, Capis curvata, Plusia putnami (sedge meadow), Plusia contexta (sedge meadow), Plusia venusta (sedge meadow), Acronicta oblinata, Apamea nigrior (hydric hardwood forest), Luperina stipata, Eremobina jocasta (sedge meadow), Meropleon diversicolor, Lemmeria digitalis (sedge meadow), Chortodes inquinata (sedge meadow), Chortodes defecta (sedge meadow), Archanara oblonga (sedge meadow), Papaipema cataphracta (sedge meadow), Papaipema impecuniosa (sedge meadow), Papaipema nepheleptena (sedge meadow), Papaipema eupatorii (sedge meadow), Papaipema unimoda, Bellura obliqua, Lithophane oriunda, Xanthia togata, Catabena lineolata, Leucania linita (sedge meadow), and Agrotis gladiaria (sedge meadow). 

            It is also noteworthy that some wetland dependent Lepidoptera may be less susceptible to catastrophic flooding events at a locality like Fallen Timbers than populations occurring in riparian floodplains.  Poanes viator was common in Mosquito Hill Nature Center sedge meadows on the Wolf River floodplain from 1989-1992, and Euphyes dion was present there also but uncommon.  This area is normally flooded in the spring, but in 1993 (an usually wet year with major flooding problems along the Mississippi) the area remained flooded into July and August and the sedge meadow community never grew.  The following year the sedge meadow vegetation returned, but surveys in 1994 and 1995 did not uncover any P. viator or E. dion.  In contrast, while the inland swamp forest/sedge meadow complexes at Fallen Timbers had unusually high water levels in 1993, the sedge meadow plant communities and associated butterflies (Poanes viator, Poanes massasoit, Euphyes dion, Euphyes conspicua, Chlosyne harrisii, Clossiana selene, and Satyrodes eurydice) all survived. 

 

 

Acknowledgments:  I thank Libby Dorn, director of Fallen Timbers Environmental Center, for her cooperation and encouragement with my Lepidoptera surveys at the environmental center.  The authorization she provided to collect specimens with 24 hour access to the environmental center was crucial to the success of this project.  I am especially grateful to my parents, Hugo & Sharon Kons Sr., for much support and tolerance for my research activities over many years.  I thank my colleagues Robert Borth and Thomas Barina for their collaboration in our study of Wisconsin Lepidoptera.  I give special thanks to Ken Hall of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (retired) for his support and encouragement of my undergraduate Lepidoptera research activities.  I thank the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the American Entomological Institute for lab space and infrastructural support.  George Balogh examined some of the first Geometrid specimens I collected at Fallen Timbers and was instrumental in helping me start my research collection for this family.  George Balogh also determined specimens for all of the Fallen Timbers Eupithecia species.  Hugo and Sharon Kons Sr. assisted with building light and bait traps, and Richard Merkhofer provided the initial design for the inverted cone platform bait trap.  For facilitating access to museum collections I thank Donald Harvey, Patricia Poole, and Robert Robbins (National Museum of Natural History) and Su Borkin (Milwaukee Public Museum).  Also, for assistance with acquiring chemicals important to collecting or genitalic dissections, I thank Niklaus Hostettler, Jim Lloyd, Robert Robbins, and David Wahl. 

 

Check List of the Lepidoptera of Fallen Timbers Environmental Center

 

Species Total for Included Families              653

 

MACROLEPIDOPTERA          642

 

DREPANOIDEA                                            7

 

THYATIRIDAE                                              3

6235    Habrosyne scripta      

6236    Habrosyne gloriosa    

6237    Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides      

 

DREPANIDAE                                               4

Drepaninae                                                    3

6251    Drepana arcuata        

6252    Drepana bilineata       

6253    Eudeilinia herminiata  

Oretinae                                                         1

6255    Oreta rosea    

 

GEOMETROIDEA                                         135

 

GEOMETRIDAE                                            134

 

Archierinae                                                    1

6256    Archieris infans          

 

Ennominae                                                    83

6261    Heliomata cycladata  

6270    Proitame virginalis     

6273    Itame pustularia         

6278    Itame evagaria           

6290    Itame loricaria

6303    Itame subcessaria      

6326    Semiothisa aemulataria         

6330    Semiothisa ulsterata  

6342    Semiothisa bisignata  

6351    Semiothisa oweni       

6362    Semiothisa continuata           

6386    Semiothisa ocellinata 

6397    Semiothisa mellistrigata         

6405    Semiothisa gnophosaria        

6436    Ematurga amitaria     

6570    Aethalura intertexta    

6583    Iridopsis ephyraria      

6584    Iridopsis humaria        

6588    Iridopsis larvaria         

6590    Anavitrinelia pampinaria        

6597    Ectropis crepuscularia           

6598    Protoboarmia porcelaria        

6620    Melanolophia canadaria         

6621    Melanolophia signataria         

6637    Eufidonia convergaria

6640    Biston betularia          

6651    Lycia ursaria  

6654    Hypagyrtis unipunctata          

6658    Phigalia titea   

6660    Phigalia strigitaria       

6662    Paleacrita vernata      

6665    Erannis tiliaria 

6666    Lomographa semiclarata       

6667    Lomographa vestaliata          

6668    Lomographa glomeraria        

6677    Cabera erythemaria   

6678    Cabera variolaria       

6720    Lytrosis unitaria          

6724    Euchlaena serrata      

6726    Euchlaena obtusaria  

6728    Euchlaena effecta     

6729    Euchlaena johnsonaria          

6734    Euchlaena marginaria

6740    Xanthotype urticaria   

6743    Xanthotype sospeta   

6753    Pero honestaria          

6754    Pero hubneraria         

6755    Pero morrisonaria      

6763    Nacophora quernaria 

6796    Campaea perlata       

6797    Ennomos magnaria   

6798    Ennomos subsignaria

6799    Epirranthis substriataria         

6804    Petrophora subaequaria        

6807    Tacparia detersata     

6811    Homochlodes lactispargaria  

6812    Homochlodes fritillaria           

6815    Gueneria similaria      

6819    Metanema inatomaria

6820    Metanema determiniata         

6822    Metarranthis duaria    

6825    Metarranthis indeclinata         

6827    Metarranthis refractaria         

6835    Cepphis armataria     

6836    Anagoga pulveraria occiduaria          

6837    Probole alienaria

6838    Probole amicaria        

6839.1 Probole nyssaria        

6842    Plagodis phlogosaria  

6843    Plagodis fervidaria     

6844    Plagodis alcoolaria     

6884    Besma endropiaria     

6885    Besma quercivoraria 

6888    Lambdina fiscellaria   

6906    Nepytia canosaria      

6912    Sicya macularia         

6941    Eusarca confusaria    

6963    Tetracis crocallata     

6964    Tetracis cachexiata   

6965    Eugonobapta nivosaria          

6966    Eutrapela clemataria  

6982    Prochoerodes lineola 

7009    Nematocampa resistaria       

 

Geometrinae                                                  3

7048    Nemoria mimosaria   

7058    Synchlora aerata       

7071    Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria           

 

Sterrhinae                                                      7

7132    Pleuroprucha insulsaria         

7139    Cyclophora pendulinaria        

7146    Haematopis grataria  

7157    Scopula cacuminaria 

7159    Scopula limboundata 

7165    Scopula quadrilineata

7169    Scopula inductata      

 

Larentiinae                                                     40

7196    Eulithis diversilineata  

7197    Eulithis gracilineata    

7201    Eulithis testata

7205    Eulithis flavibrunneata

7206    Eulithis explanata       

7216    Plemyria georgeii       

7236    Hydriomena renunciata         

7237    Hydriomena transfigurata      

7254    Hydriomena ruberata 

7285    Triphosa haesitata      

7290    Coryphista meadii      

7292    Hydria prunivorata     

7293    Rheumaptera hastata

7307    Mesoleuca ruficillata  

7312    Spargania magnoliata

7329    Anticlea vasiliata        

7230    Anticlea multiferata    

7368    Xanthorhoe labradorensis      

7388    Xanthorhoe ferrugata 

7390    Xanthorhoe lacustrata

7394    Epirrhoe alternata      

7399    Euphyia intermediata 

7414    Orthonama obstipata 

7416    Orthonama centrostrigaria     

7419    Hydrelia lucata           

7423    Hydrelia albifera         

7428    Venusia comptaria     

7430    Trichodezia albovittata           

7433    Epirrita autumnata     

7440    Eubaphe mendica      

7445    Horisme intestinata    

7474    Eupithecia miserulata

7491    Eupithecia fletcherata

7518    Eupithecia intricata    

7529    Eupithecia absinthiata

7605    Eupithecia ravocostaliata       

7640    Lobophora nivigerata 

7645    Heterophleps refusaria          

7647    Heterophleps triguttaria          

7648    Dyspteris abortivaria  

 

EPIPLEMIDAE                                               1

7653    Calledapteryx dryopterata     

 

RHOPALOCERA                                          71

 

HESPERIIDAE                                               24

Pyrginae                                                         4

3945    Erynnis icelus 

3947    Erynnis juvenalis        

3966    Pyrgus communis      

3977    Pholisora catullus       

 

Heteropterinae                                              1

3982    Carterocephalus palemon     

 

Hesperiinae                                                   19

4004    Ancyloxpha numitor   

4012    Thymelicus lineola     

4033    Hesperia sassacus     

4036    Polites coras  

4041    Polites themistocles   

4043    Polites mystic 

4047    Wallengrenia egeremet          

4048    Pompeius verna         

4049    Atalopedes campestris          

4051    Atrytone logan

4058    Poanes massasoit      

4059    Poanes hobomok       

4064    Poanes viator 

4072    Euphyes dion

4075    Euphyes conspicua   

4078    Euphyes vestris         

4096    Amblyscirtes hegon   

4105    Amblyscirtes vialis     

4111    Lerodea eufala           

 

PAPILIONOIDEA                                          47

 

PAPLIONIDAE                                              3

4159    Papilio polyxenus       

4176    Papilio glaucus           

4176.1 Papilio canadensis     

 

PIERIDAE                                                      5

4195    Pieris napi      

4197    Pieris rapae    

4209    Colias philodice          

4210    Colias eurytheme       

4224    Zerene cessonia        

 

LYCAENIDAE                                                10

4249    Feniseca tarquinius    

4253    Gaeides xanthoides   

4256    Hyllolycaena hyllus    

4285    Satyrium liparops       

4282    Satyrium calanus       

4281    Satyrium edwardsii    

4278    Satyrium acadicum   

4326    Callophrys henrici      

4361    Everes comyntas       

4363    Celastrina ladon [complex]    

 

 NYMPHALIDAE                                           29

4420    Polygonia interrogationis        

4421    Polygonia comma      

4429    Polygonia progne       

4430    Nymphalis vau-album

4432    Nymphalis antiopa     

4433    Aglais milberti 

4434    Vanessa virginiensis  

4435    Vanessa cardui          

4437    Vanessa atlanta         

4440    Junonia coenia           

4450    Speyeria cybele         

4451    Speyeria aphrodite     

4459    Speyeria atlantis        

4464    Clossiana selene        

4465    Clossiana bellona       

4481    Phyciodes tharos       

4481.1 Phyciodes pascoensis           

4482    Phyciodes batesii       

4489    Chlosyne gorgone      

4491    Chlosyne harrisii        

4522    Basilarchia arthemis  

4523    Basilarchia archippus 

4557    Astereocampa celtis  

4568.1 Enodia anthedon        

4568.3 Satyrodes eurydice    

4569    Satyrodes appalachia

4578    Megisto cymela         

4587    Cercyonis pegala       

4614    Danaus plexippus      

 

LASIOCAMPOIDEA                                     5

 

LASIOCAMPIDAE                                        5

Macromphaliinae                                          2

7670    Tolype velleda

7673    Tolype laricis  

Gastropachinae                                            1

7687    Phyllodesma americana        

Lasiocampinae                                              2

7698    Malacosoma disstria  

7701    Malacosoma americanum     

 

BOMBYCOIDEA                                           25

 

APATELODIDAE                                          1

7665    Olceclostera angelica

 

SATURNIIDAE                                              4

Citheroniinae                                                             1

7715    Dryocampa rubicunda           

Saturniinae                                                    3

7757    Antheraea polyphemus          

7758    Actias luna     

7767    Hyalophora cecropia 

 

SPHINGIDAE                                                             20

 

Sphinginae                                                    12

7784    Dolba hyloeus

7787    Ceratomia undulosa   

7796    Sphinx eremitus         

7807    Sphinx canadensis     

7809    Sphinx kalmiae          

7810    Sphinx gordius (incl. poecile) 

7811    Sphinx luscitiosa        

7821    Smerinthus jamaicensis         

7822    Smerinthus cerisyi     

7824    Paonias excaecatus  

7825    Paonias myops          

7828    Pachysphinx modesta           

 

Macroglossinae                                            8

7853    Hemaris thysbe          

7855    Hemaris diffinis          

7870    Sphecodina abbottii   

7871    Deidamia inscripta     

7873    Amphion floridensis   

7885    Darapsa myron          

7886    Darapsa pholus          

7894    Hyles lineata  

 

NOCTUOIDEA                                              399

 

NOTODONTIDAE                                         29

7895    Clostera albosigma    

7898    Clostera strigosa        

7901    Clostera apicalis         

7902    Datana ministra          

7906    Datana contractata    

7907    Datana integerrima    

7908    Datana perspicua       

7915    Nadata gibbosa          

7917    Hyperaeschra georgica         

7920    Peridea angulosa       

7922    Pheosia rimosa          

7924    Odontosia elegans     

7928    Notodonta simplaria   

7929    Nerice bidentata         

7930    Ellida caniplaga          

7931    Gluphisia septentrionis           

7933    Gluphisia avimacula  

7939    Furcula occidentalis   

7952    Symmerista canicosta           

7953    Symmerista leucitys  

7975    Macrurocampa marthesia     

7983    Heterocampa obliqua

7994    Heterocampa guttivitta          

7999    Lochmaeus bilineata  

8005    Schizura ipomoeae    

8006    Schizura badia           

8007    Schizura unicornis     

8011    Schizura leptinoides   

8012    Oligocentria semirufescens   

 

NOCTUIDAE                                                 370

 

Herminiinae                                                   32

8322    Idia americalis

8323    Idia aemula    

8323.1 Idia concisa    

8324    Idia majoralis  

8326    Idia rotundalis 

8328    Idia julia          

8334    Idia lubricalis  

8338    Phalaenophana pyramusalis 

8340    Zanclognatha lituralis 

8345    Zanclognatha laevigata          

8348    Zanclognatha pedipilalis cpx. A         

8349    Zanclognatha protumnusalis  

8351    Zanclognatha cruralis cpx. sp A        

8352    Zanclognatha marcidilinea (formerly jacchusalis)     

8353    Zanclognatha ochreipennis    

8355    Chytolita morbidalis   

8356    Chytolita petrealis      

8357    Macrochilo absorptalis           

8357.1 Macrochilo hypocritialis Fgn. 

8358    Macrochilo litophora  

8359    Macrochilo bivittata    

8360    Macrochilo orciferalis

8361    Macrochilo louisiana  

8362    Phalaenostola metonalis        

8363    Phalaenostola eumelusalis    

8364    Phalaenostola larentioides     

8365    Phalaenostola hanhami         

8370    Bleptina caradrinalis   

8379    Renia factiosalis         

8384.1 Renia flavipunctalis    

8393    Lascoria ambigualis   

8397    Palthis angulalis         

 

Rivulinae                                                        1

8404    Rivula propinqualis     

 

Hypenodinae                                                             2

8420    Hypenodes caducus  

            Hypenodes sp. nr. fractilinea 

 

Subfamily Unknown                                     1

8428    Dyspyralis nigella       

 

Hypeninae                                                      11

8441    Hypena manalis         

8442    Hypena baltimoralis   

8443    Hypena bijugalis         

8445    Hypena abalienalis     

8446    Hypena deceptalis     

8448    Hypena sordidula       

8450    Hypena atomaria       

8452    Hypena edictalis        

8455    Hypena eductalis       

8461    Hypena humuli           

8465    Hypena scabra

 

Subfamily Unkown                                       1         

8479    Spargaloma sexpunctata       

 

Pangraptinae                                                             1

8491    Ledaea perditalis

 

Boletobiinae                                                  1         

8500    Metalectra quadrisignata

 

Calpinae                                                         1         

8536    Calyptra canadensis

 

Scoliopteryginae                                           1         

8555    Scoliopteryx libatrix   

 

Eulepidotinae                                                            1

8574    Anticarsia gemmatalis           

 

Erebinae (=Catocalinae)                              31

8592    Cissusa spadix           

8689    Zale lunata     

8692    Zale galbanata           

8695    Zale undularis 

8697    Zale minerea  

8713.1 Zale intenta (formerly lunifera)          

8717    Zale horrida    

8719    Euparthenos nubilis    

8727    Parallelia bistriaris      

8738    Caenurgina crassiuscula       

8739    Caenurgina erechtea 

8788    Catocala retecta        

8797    Catocala subnata                                [Col. Robert J. Borth] 

8798    Catocala neogama    

8801    Catocala ilia   

8802    Catocala cerogama   

8803    Catocala relicta          

8805    Catocala unijuga        

8806    Catocala parta           

8817    Catocala briseis         

8822    Catocala meskei        

8832    Catocala cara

8833    Catocala concumbens           

8834    Catocala amatrix       

8851    Catocala coccinata    

8857    Catocala ultronia        

8858    Catocala crataegi       

8863    Catocala mira

8864    Catocala grynea                    

8867    Catocala blandula

8869    Catocala alabamae    

 

Arctiinae                                                        25

8043    Eilema bicolor

8045.1 Crambidia pallida       

8090    Hypoprepia fucosa    

8098    Clemensia albata       

8109    Haploa reversa          

8111    Haploa lecontei          

8112    Haploa confusa          

8114    Holomelina laeta        

8121    Holomelina aurantiaca           

8123    Holomelina ferruginosa          

8129    Pyrrharctia isabella    

8131    Estigmene acrea        

8134    Spilosoma congrua    

8137    Spilosoma virginica    

8140    Hyphantria cunea      

8156    Phragmatobia fuliginosa        

8175    Grammia virguncula  

8196    Grammia parthenice  

8197    Grammia virgo           

8203    Halysidota tessellaris 

8230    Cycnia tenera

8231    Cycnia oregonensis   

8238    Euchaetes egle          

8262    Ctenucha virginica     

8267    Cisseps fulvicollis

           

Lymantriinae                                                 4

8300    Dasychira cinnamomea        

8302    Dasychira obliquata   

8314    Orgyia definita           

8316    Orgyia leucostigma    

 

Euteliinae                                                       1

8955    Marathyssa inficita     

 

Risobinae                                                       3

8969    Baileya doubledayi     

8970    Baileya ophthalmica  

8971    Baileya dormitans

 

Chloephorinae                                              1         

8975    Nycteola frigidana

           

Nolinae                                                           4

8983    Meganola miniscula   

8983.2 Meganola spodia        

8990    Nola cilicoides

8992    Nola triquetrana         

 

Subfamily Unknown                                     1

9038    Hyperstrotia villificans

 

Eustrotiinae                                                   8

9046    Lithacodia bellicula     

9047    Lithacodia muscosula

9048    Lithacodia albidula     

9051    Lithacodia musta        

9049    Maliattha synochitis   

9053    Pseudostrotia carneola          

9284    Anterastria teratophora          

9059    Capis curvata 

           

Condicinae                                                    7

9690    Condica videns          

9696    Condica vecors          

9720    Ogdoconta cinereola 

9057    Homophoberia apicosa          

9065    Leuconycta diphteroides        

9066    Leuconycta lepidula   

9661    Crambodes talidiformis          

 

Plusiinae                                                        15

8881    Abrostola urentis        

8887    Trichoplusia ni

8890    Pseudoplusia includens         

8896    Diachrysia aeroides   

8897    Diachrysia balluca     

8898    Allagrapha aerea        

8905    Eosphoropteryx thyatyroides 

8907    Megalographa biloba 

8908    Autographa precationis          

8924    Anagrapha falcifera   

8927    Syngrapha epigaea    

8950    Plusia putnami

            Plusia magnimacula  

8952    Plusia contexta          

8953    Plusia venusta

 

Acontiinae                                                     2

9090    Tarachidia candefacta           

9095    Tarachidia erastrioides

           

Amphipyrinae                                                3

9638    Amphipyra pyramidoides       

9639    Amphipyra tragopoginis         

9640    Amphipyra glabella    

 

Eriopinae                                                       1

9631    Callopistria mollissima

           

Psaphidinae                                                   2

10019  Psaphida resumens   

10021  Copivaleria grotei       

 

Heliothinae                                                    4

11068  Helicoverpa zea         

11128  Schinia arcigera         

11135  Schinia rivulosa          

11149  Schinia trifascia

           

Agaristinae                                                    2

9299    Eudryas unio  

9301    Eudryas grata

 

Pantheinae                                                     2

9185    Colocasia propinquilinea        

9189    Charadra deridens

 

Raphiinae                                                       1         

9193    Raphia frater  

 

Acronictinae                                                  26

9062    Cerma cerintha

9200    Acronicta americana 

9203    Acronicta dactylina    

9205    Acronicta lepusculina 

9206    Acronicta leporina      

9207    Acronicta innotata      

9212    Acronicta grisea         

9225    Acronicta vinnula       

9226    Acronicta superans    

9229    Acronicta hasta          

9236    Acronicta morula       

9237    Acronicta interrupta   

9238    Acronicta lobeliae      

9241    Acronicta fragilis        

9243    Acronicta ovata          

9244    Acronicta modica       

9245    Acronicta haesitata    

9250    Acronicta inclara        

9251    Acronicta retardata    

9257    Acronicta impleta       

9259    Acronicta noctivaga   

9261    Acronicta impressa    

9272    Acronicta oblinata      

9280    Simyra henrici sp. B  

9281    Agriopodes fallax       

9286    Harrisimemna trisignata

           

Cucullinae                                                      3

10197  Cucullia florea

10200  Cucullia asteroides     

10202  Cucullia convexipennis          

 

Noctuinae                                                      171

9328    Apamea nigrior          

9333    Apamea lignicolora    

9348    Apamea amputatrix   

9351    Apamea alia   

9364    Apamea sordens        

9367    Apamea dubitans       

9373    Apamea helva

9382    Apamea devastator   

9393    Luperina stipata          

9398    Eremobina jocasta     

9404    Oligia modica 

9408    Oligia exhausta          

9409    Oligia hausta/semicana cmplx.         

9413    Oligia tonsa    

9419    Oligia mactata

9427    Meropleon diversicolor          

9429    Lemmeria digitalis      

9431    Parastichtis suspecta 

9433    Xylomoia chagnoni    

9437    Chortodes inquinata   

9443    Chortodes defecta     

9449    Archanara oblonga    

9453    Celaena reniformis    

9454    Amphipoea velata      

9456    Amphipoea interoceanica      

9457    Amphipoea americana          

9466    Papaipema cataphracta        

            Papaipema sp.

9471    Papaipema arctivorens          

9473    Papaipema impecuniosa       

9480    Papaipema pterisii     

9483    Papaipema inquaesita           

9486    Papaipema birdi         

9490    Papaipema nepheleptena      

9495    Papaipema furcata    

9497    Papaipema necopina 

9501    Papaipema eupatori   

9509    Papaipema unimoda  

9514    Hydraecia micacea   

9525    Bellura obliqua           

9545    Euplexia benesimilis  

9546    Phlogophora iris         

9547    Phlogophora periculosa         

9549    Enargia decolor          

9550    Enargia infumata       

9551    Enargia mephisto       

9555    Ipimorpha pleonectusa          

9556    Chytonix palliatricula  

9560    Dypterygia rozmani   

9578    Hyppa xylinoides       

9582    Nedra ramosula         

9626    Trachea delicata        

9647    Athetis miranda          

9649    Athetis mendosa        

9662    Balsa malana 

9663    Balsa tristrigella          

9664    Balsa labecula

9666    Spodoptera frugiperda           

9669    Spodoptera ornithogalli          

9671    Spodoptera dolichos  

9678    Elaphria versicolor     

9681    Elaphria festivoides    

9688    Galgula partita

9815    Cosmia calami           

9818    Amolita fessa 

9874    Xylena curvimacula   

9878    Lithomoia germana    

9886    Lithophane patefacta 

9887    Lithophane bethunei   

9891    Lithophane amanda   

9892    Lithophane disposita  

9893    Lithophane hemina    

9894    Lithophane oriunda    

9910    Lithophane antennata

9914    Lithophane laticinerea

9915    Lithophane grotei       

9916    Lithophane unimoda  

9917    Lithophane fagina      

9922    Lithophane pexata     

9929    Pyreferra hesperidago           

9930    Pyreferra citromba    

9933    Eupsilia vinulenta       

9935    Eupsilia tristigmata     

9936    Eupsilia morrisoni       

9939    Eupsilia devia 

9942    Metaxaglaea inulta     

9950    Chaetaglaea sericea  

9952    Eucirroedia pampina  

9957    Sunira bicolorago       

9961    Anathix ralla   

9962    Anathix puta   

9965    Xanthia togata

9998    Brachylomia algens   

10033  Catabena lineolata     

10223  Discestra trifolii          

10272  Mamestra curialis      

10276  Polia imbrifera

10280  Polia purpurissata      

10288  Polia detracta 

10292  Melanchra adjuncta   

10293  Melanchra picta         

10295  Melanchra assimilis   

10297  Lacanobia atlantica    

10299  Lacanobia subjuncta  

10300  Spirameter grandis    

10301  Spirameter lutra         

10304  Trichordestra legitima

10368  Lacinipolia meditata   

10397  Lacinipolia renigera    

10405  Lacinipolia lorea         

10406  Lacinipolia olivacea    

10431  Faronta diffusa           

10436  Aletia oxygala

10438  Pseudaletia unipuncta

10440  Leucania linita

10444  Leucania phragmatidicola      

10445  Leucania linda

10446  Leucania multilinea    

10446.1           Leucania lapidaria      

10447  Leucania commoides

10462  Leucania pseudargyria          

10487  Orthosia rubescens    

10491  Orthosia alurina          

10495  Orthosia hibisci          

10501  Crocigrapha normani 

10513  Egira dolosa   

10518  Achatia distincta         

10520  Morrisonia evicta       

10291  Morrisonia latex         

10524  Nephelodes minians  

10532  Homorthodes furfurata          

10563  Protorthodes oviduca 

10578  Pseudorthodes vecors           

10585  Orthodes crenulata    

10289  Orthodes goodelli       

10597  Orthodes cynica        

10648  Agrotis gladiaria         

10651  Agrotis venerabilis      

10663  Agrotis ipsilon 

10670  Feltia jaculifera           

10674  Feltia subgothica        

10675  Feltia tricosa   

10676  Feltia herilis    

10705  Euxoa messoria         

10793  Euxoa scholastica      

10803  Euxoa velleripennis    

10805  Euxoa tessellata         

10903  Euagrotis illapsa         

10915  Peridroma saucia       

10891  Ochropleura implecta

10926  Spaelotis clandestina 

10928  Graphiphora augur     

10929  Eurois occulta

10942  Xestia c-nigrum          

10942.1           Xestia dolosa  

10943  Xestia normaniana     

10944  Xestia smithii  

10988  Coenophila opacifrons           

10955  Agnorisma badinodis

10950  Pseudohermonassa bicarnea

10951  Pseudohermonassa tenuicula           

10994  Cerastis tenebrifera   

10996  Cerastis salicarum     

11000  Anaplectoides prasina

11001  Anaplectoides pressus           

11006  Protolampra brunneicollis      

11007  Eueretagrotis sigmoides        

11008  Eueretagrotis perattenta        

11012  Cryptocala acadiensis           

11029  Abagrotis alternata     

11043  Abagrotis cupida        

 

Some Other Lepidoptera Families

 

HEPIALIDAE                                                 1

18        Sthenopis argenteomaculatus           

COSSIDAE                                                    1

2676    Acossus populi           

ATTEVIDAE                                                  1

2401    Atteva punctella         

ZYGAENOIDEA                                            7

ZYGAENIDAE                                                           1

4624    Harrisina americana  

LIMACODIDAE                                             6

4652    Tortricidia testacea    

4659    Packardia geminata   

4665    Lithacodes fasciola    

4667    Apoda y-inversum     

4668    Apoda biguttata          

4697    Euclea delphini           

THYRIDIDAE                                                 1

6076    Thyris maculata         

 

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