Lacinipolia anguina (Grote) Snaky Arches

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 42

36. Lacinipolia anguina (Grote) Snaky Arches

( Figs. 66–67 , Map 37)

Identification: Forewing length 11–16 mm. Prothorax with a medial, black, horizontal line. Overall forewing ground color is gray. This is a heavily patterned species with a black basal dash and black crenulate basal line. Orbicular spot is white with basal tan shading and distal and proximal black margins. Reniform spot is white with proximal tan shading and distal and proximal black margins. There is a distinct black dash just above the tornus that has a variably shaped white spot, usually in the form of an arrowhead that is contiguous with the black dash. This white arrowhead is the terminus of the subterminal line. Hindwing is white with a variable amount of gray scales along posterior margin. Hindwing veins can be highlighted with gray.

Flight period: Mid-May.

Collected localities: Tennessee: Cocke Co., Cosby Ranger Station , Foothills Parkway. (5 specimens)

Elevation range: 1750–2400 ft. (533–732 m)

General distribution: Across Canada from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to British Columbia. In the U.S. from Maine south to Tennessee and throughout the Midwest to Idaho, Wyoming , and Colorado.

Larval hosts: Unknown.

MAP 37. Collecting localities of Lacinipolia anguina .

Figures

FIGURES 65–72. Adults. 65, Homorthodes lindseyi, f, Maryland, Montgomery Co., Colesville, 29 May 1975, D.C. Ferguson; 66, Lacinipolia anguina, m, Connecticut, New Haven Co., New Haven, West Rock Park, 24 May 1966, D.C. Ferguson; 67, Lacinipolia anguina, m, Connecticut, New Haven Co., New Haven, West Rock Park, 24 May 1966, D.C. Ferguson; 68, Lacinipolia explicata, f, South Carolina, Charleston Co., McClellanville, Wedge Plantation, 8 Apr. 1970, D.C. Ferguson; 69, Lacinipolia explicata, f, Maryland, Anne Arundel Co., South Haven, 15 Aug. 1992, H.G. Stevenson; 70, Lacinipolia implicata, f, Tennessee, Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway, second overlook East, 21 Sep. 2000, D. & M. Davis, USNMENT 00153263; 71, Lacinipolia implicata, m, Tennessee, Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway, second overlook East, 21 Sep. 2000, D. & M. Davis, USNMENT 00153261; 72, Lacinipolia implicata, m, Tennessee, Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway, second overlook East, 21 Sep. 2000, D. & M. Davis, USNMENT 00153260.