Craspedolepta flavida (Caldwell, 1938)

(Fig. 82–85)

Aphalara flavida Caldwell 1938a: 243 .

Craspedolepta flavida (Caldwell); Journet 1973: 468; Russell 1973: 157; Journet and Vickery 1979: 74.

Cerna flavida (Caldwell); Klimaszewski 1979: 52.

Materials examined. Canada: Quebec; USA: Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin (FSCA, MHNG, NHMB, USNM, dry and slide mounted). – Florida: Pinellas County: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Saint Petersburg, 4.iv.1938 (DeLong) (USNM, dry mounted) .

Diagnosis. Differs from other North American species as indicated in the key of Journet and Vickery (1979). Among the species of Florida, it resembles C. bifida and C. furcata in absence of dark spots on the forewings from which it differs in details of the male and female terminalia. The rear margin of paramere is bulged in the middle (Fig. 83) rather than apical third (Fig. 58, 61); the female subgenital plate is pointed apically (Fig. 85) rather than indented apically.

Distribution. Recorded from Canada (AB, MB, ON, QC, SK); USA (ME, MI, OH, OR, PA, SC, WI) (Hodkinson 1988); USA (new record for Florida).

Host plant. Euthamia graminifolia (L.) Nutt. (Compositae).