Cannon PowerShot SX50 HS
Photos of Laurentiinae
(Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Suburban Appleton in 2017
Hugo L. Kons Jr.
hkonsjr@yahoo.com
2019
Appleton Lepidoptera Photo
Index for 2017
The below photos
were taken by the author in a suburban yard on West Summer Street in Appleton, WI
(Outagamie County) (Google Earth figures). The habitat includes a variety of trees,
gardens, and lawns. The closest forested
habitat is along the Fox River about 1.2 miles to the south (mesic to hydric
hardwoods). Fields, mesic to hydric
hardwood forest, and prairie planting occur just over 2 miles to the west. Forested and open wetlands occur just over 3
miles to the northwest. Xeric uplands do
not occur in the vicinity.
While
many of the photos shown are of live specimens, at least one voucher specimen
of each species was collected on each date recorded. Many of the live specimen photos are the same
individuals as the voucher specimens collected after the photo was taken. Some of the identifications are based on
characters not visible in the photos. More
species were collected at this site in 2017 than are represented in the below
photo sets, but most species with photos of live individuals from 2017 are
included.
Numbers
in [ ] are from the Hodges et al. (1983) checklist of the Lepidoptera of
America North of Mexico.
8 August 2017
29 August 2017
25 July 2017
Hydriomena
renunciata [7236]
8 July 2017
8 July 2017
17 July 2017
Coryphista
meadii [7290]
2017
Xanthorhoe
ferrugata [7388]
21 July 2017
25 July 2017
14 August 2017
19 September 2017
Xanthorhoe
lacustrata [7390]
4 August 2017
Euphyia
intermediata [7399]
31 July 2017
Males
8 July 2017
1 July 2017
11 August 2017
Females
1 July 2017
26 July 2017
21 September 2017
Orthonama
centrostrigaria [7416]
Males
5 May 2017
5 August 2017
7 August 2017
8 August 2017
21 August 2017
19 October 2017
Females
15 June 2017
15 June 2017
29 June 2017
5 July 2017
21 October 2017
Hydrelia
albata [7423]
21 June 2017
30 July 2017
Horisme
intestinata [7445]
10 August 2017
23 August 2017
NOTE: Eupithecia is a diverse and difficult genus
with many species that can only be reliably identified by genitalia. However, only eight species have been
recorded from suburban Appleton as of 2017.
Eupithecia palpata and E. ravocostaliata have distinctive wing
patterns. Exemplars of the other six
species have been identified with genitalia.
However, all dissected specimens of greyish specimens with contrasting light
grey to white-tipped abdomens have been E.
miserulata or E. absinthiata, and
these species can be separated from each other by pattern. Eupithecia
swettii has the narrowest forewing among Appleton species. The only species recorded after early June
are E. miserulata, E. absinthiata, and
E. misturata, the latter which
appears to be a rare stray. Eupithecia fletcherata and E. columbiata could be confused with various
other similar species; however, none of these other possibilities have been
recorded from Appleton among dissected material. Genitalia were examined for one E. fletcherata recorded in 2017, but the
probable E. fletcherata specimens in
the below photos were not confirmed with dissection.
Eupithecia
palpata [7449]
31 May 2017
27 May 2017
15 June 2017
5 July 2017
20 September 2017
4 October 2017
16 October 2017
21 October 2017
26 October 2017
Eupithecia
misturata [7476]
21 August 2017
Eupithecia
fletcherata [7491]
(probably)
16, 26, 30 May 2017
26 May 2017
Eupithecia
absinthiata [7529]
22 August 2017
22 August 2017
Eupithecia
swettii [7530]
24 April 2017
Eupithecia
ravocostaliata [7605]
13 May 2017
2 June 2017
4 June 2017
8 June 2017
8 June 2017
13 June 2017
15 June 2017
23 June 2017
20 July 2017