Lacinipolia implicata McDunnough Implicit Arches, 1937

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 43-44

38. Lacinipolia implicata McDunnough Implicit Arches

( Figs. 70–72 , Map 39)

Identification: Forewing length 12–14 mm. Frons white with two black dashes just below antenna and touching eyes but are not contiguous across frons. Patagium is mostly grayish green with a thin distal black border. Forewing from base to antemedial line is grayish green mixed with a few white scales and some small black spots along costa. Claviform spot is obscure usually only a few black scales below Cu vein. The median area between the antemedial and postmedial lines is black with ferruginous brown between the orbicular and reniform spots in some specimens. Orbicular and reniform spots are grayish green outlined in black. The distal portion of the wing is grayish green. In some specimens the subterminal line is present and is represented by a series of white oval to triangular spots. Hindwing is gray with a postmedial line.

Lacinipolia implicata resembles L. explicata but can be separated by the grayish-green basal area and the grayish-green orbicular and reniform spots which are more contrasting within the median area in L. implicata than the darker basal area and the more ferruginous brown orbicular and reniform spots in L. explicata . The hindwing is usually darker in L. implicata with a distinct postmedial line. In L. explicata the hindwing is whiter and the postmedial line is usually absent.

MAP 39. Collecting localities of Lacinipolia implicata .

Flight period: September to mid-October with 2 broods across range.

Collected localities: North Carolina : Haywood Co., Piney Mt., Purchase Knob, Purchase Knob NW of house in forest, Purchase Knob cabin; Swain Co., Big Cove Road site b, Big Cove Road site p, Big Cove Road site w . Tennessee: Blount Co., Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church, Cold Spring Gap , Tremont ; Cocke Co. , Cosby Ranger Station , Foothills Parkway south overlook, Foothills Parkway second overlook, Foothills Parkway ; Sevier Co. , Greenbrier near Ranger Station , Elkmont , Park Headquarters. (38 specimens)

Elevation range: 1360–4924 ft. (415–1501 m)

General distribution: Distributed from Massachusetts south to South Carolina and west to Texas.

Larval hosts: Larvae obtained from eggs were reared on common dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. , Asteraceae ), lettuce ( Latuca sp. , Asteraceae ), and cultivated endive ( Cichorium endivia L., Asteraceae ) ( Godfrey 1972).

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.