Orthosia revicta (Morrison) Subdued Quaker

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 21-22

12. Orthosia revicta (Morrison) Subdued Quaker

( Figs. 24–25 , Map 13)

Identification: Forewing length 15–18 mm. The forewing ground color is variable from dark reddish brown to pale gray. Antemedial line is variable from absent on dark colored specimens to a series of contiguous crescent-shaped spots. Postmedial line is a series of small black spots on wing veins that can be variable in number and intensity. Subterminal line is cream colored proximally and ferruginous distally or can be a series of black spots. Orbicular spot is ground color and bordered with cream colored and ferruginous scales. Reniform spot is darker than orbicular spot and similarly ringed. A remnant of the claviform spot, a thin curved ferruginous and cream-colored line, below orbicular spot. Hindwing is dirty white suffused with gray and ferruginous scales with a faint discal spot in most specimens.

Flight period: Late March to early May.

Collected localities: North Carolina : Haywood Co., Purchase Knob; Swain Co., Big Cove Road site b, Big Cove Road site c, Big Cove Road site p . Tennessee: Blount Co., Cold Spring Gap, Tremont GSMI. (15 specimens)

Elevation range: 1390–4924 ft. (424–1501m)

General distribution: This is a widespread species occurring across Canada from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to British Columbia, except for Quebec, and in the U.S. from Maine to North Carolina and Tennessee west to Colorado and Utah and north to Washington, Oregon, and Alaska.

Larval hosts: A polyphagous species on forest trees. The following hosts are arranged in order of preference based on the number of specimens collected from each host: willow ( Salix sp. , Salicaceae ), quaking aspen ( Populus tremuloides Michx. , Salicaceae ), sugar maple ( Acer saccharum Marsh. , Aceraceae ), white ash ( Fraxinus americana L., Oleaceae ), basswood ( Tilia americana L., Tiliaceae ), European white birch ( Betula pendula Roth , Betulaceae ), yellow birch ( Betula alleghaniensis Britton , Betulaceae ), beech ( Fagus sp. , Fagaceae ), red maple ( Acer rubrum L., Aceraceae ), bigtooth aspen ( Populus grandidentata Michx. , Salicaceae ), American elm ( Ulmus americana L., Ulmaceae ), black walnut ( Juglans nigra L., Juglandaceae ), hickory ( Carya sp. , Juglandaceae ), pin cherry ( Prunus pennsylvanica L., Rosaceae ), white oak ( Quercus alba L., Fagaceae ), red oak ( Quercus rubra L., Fagaceae ), bur oak ( Quercus . macrocarpa Michx. , Fagaceae ) ( Prentice 1962). Other hosts include rose spirea ( Spiraea douglasii Hook., Rosaeceae ) and apple ( Malus sp. , Rosaceae ) ( Crumb 1956). The larva is illustrated in Wagner (2005).

MAP 13. Collecting localities of Orthosia revicta .

Figures

FIGURES 17–24. Adults. 17, Morrisonia triangula, f, South Carolina, Charleston Co., McClellanville, Wedge Plantation, 7 Apr. 1977, D.C. Ferguson; 18, Orthosia alurina, f, New York, Tompkins Co., Ithaca, Forest Home, Golf Course Woods, 23 Apr. 1961, D.C. Ferguson; 19, Orthosia alurina, f, New York, Tompkins Co., Ithaca, Forest Home, Golf Course Woods, 23 Apr. 1961, D.C. Ferguson; 20, Orthosia garmani, f, Connecticut, New Haven Co., Bethany, 6 Apr. 1969, D.C. Ferguson; 21, Orthosia garmani, f, Pennsylvania, Bucks Co., Reading, 9 Apr. 1959; 22, Orthosia hibisci, f, New York, 30 Mar. 1905; 23, Orthosia hibisci, m, Connecticutt, New Haven Co., New Haven, Yale Preserve, 17 Apr. 1964, D.C. Ferguson; 24, Orthosia revicta, f, New York, Tompkins Co., Ringwood Reserve near Dryden, 2 May 1965, D.C. Ferguson.

FIGURES 25–32. Adults. 25, Orthosia revicta, m, New York, Tompkins Co., Ringwood Reserve near Dryden, 2 May 1965, D.C. Ferguson. 26, Orthosia rubescens, m, Connecticut, New Haven Co., Bethany, 13 Apr. 1968, D.C. Ferguson; 27, Orthosia rubescens, m, New York, Long Island, 11 Apr. 1901; 28, Orthosia rubescens, m, Connecticut, New Haven Co., Bethany, 13 Apr. 1968, D.C. Ferguson; 29, Nephelodes minians, m, Tennessee, Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway, second overlook East, 1800 ft., 21 Sep. 2001, D.R. Davis, USNMENT 00153373; 30, Dargida diffusa, m, New Mexico, Union Co., Clayton, 5.3 mi NW of Hwy. 87 on 370, 5214 ft., 23 Aug. 2004, M.G. Pogue; 31, Dargida diffusa, m, Colorado, Fremont Co., Coaldale, Hayden Creek, 6800 ft., 9 July 1982, D.C. Ferguson; 32, Hadena ectypa, f, Illinois, Cook Co., Chicago, 10 July 1927.