Pseudorthodes vecors (Guenée) Small Brown Quaker

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 53-54

49. Pseudorthodes vecors (Guenée) Small Brown Quaker

( Figs. 94–97 , Map 50)

Identification: Forewing length 12–16 mm. Forewing ground color ferruginous to brown. Antemedial line is slightly scalloped and black, in some specimens the scalloped line can be double with a light ground color between. Orbicular spot is absent, but in a few specimens it is represented by a small white spot. Reniform spot is a small, white rectangle bordered by a few black scales distally. Some specimens can have a pale ferruginous reniform spot. Postmedial line is black, faint, and curves around reniform spot to posterior margin. Subterminal line is a series of black spots that can be connected with black lines on some specimens. Hindwing is gray with light colored fringe.

Flight period: May to early September, 2 broods.

Collected localities: North Carolina : Haywood Co., Balsam Mountain picnic area on Flat Creek Trail, Balsam Mountain Road Flat Creek Trail, Balsam Mountain Road Polls Gap Hemphill Bald Trail, Balsam Mountain Road 6.1 mi north of Blue Ridge Parkway Polls Gap Rough Fork Trail, Cataloochee pull off at Sal Patch Gap, Cataloochee service road off Cataloochee road, Cataloochee just off paved road to Cosby, Cataloochee NW of Palmer Chapel, trail to Hannah Hogden Cemetery, Mt. Sterling trail 0.72 mi from Trailhead, Purchase Knob, Purchase Knob road in meadow, Purchase Knob E of house in forest, Purchase Knob NW of house, Purchase Knob at house, Purchase Knob on road in meadow, Purchase Knob at lower creek, Purchase Knob Ferguson cabin, Purchase Knob 1.1 rd. mi from house, Purchase Knob in woods at base of knob, Purchase Knob 0.5 mi N of gate. Swain Co., Beetree Ridge, Big Cove Road site b, Big Cove Road site c, Big Cove Road site p, Big Cove Road site w, 5 road mi north Clingmans Dome, Indian Gap Clingmans Dome Road, 5.6 mi southwest of junction Hwy. 441 and Clingmans Dome Road Noland Divide Trail, 0.7 km up creek from mouth of Goldmine Creek, 0.7 km S Payne Cemetery, Kephart Prong Trail, Ravensford, Smokemont, Upper Noland Divide Trail below Clingmans Dome. Tennessee: Blount Co., Campsite 6 head of spring Scott Mountain Trail, Tremont; Cocke Co., 0.6 mi from state route 32 on road to Cosby campground, 1.2 mi from state route 32 on road to Cosby campground, Cosby ATBI house, Cosby Campground, Cosby picnic area off Gabes Mountain Trail, Foothills Parkway, Foothills Parkway East, Foothills Parkway 3 rd overlook from Cosby, Foothills Parkway 2.5 mi from Rt. 321, Maddron Bald Trail; Sevier Co., above Chimney’s Campground, Jake’s Creek Trail Campsite 27, Jake’s Creek Trail near Campsite 27, Jake’s Creek Trail above Campsite 27, Jake’s Creek Trail, Cove Forest pullout Hwy. 441, end of Greenbrier Loop Road 4 mi south Rt. 321, Greenbrier Ranger Station, Greenbrier picnic shelter, return on Greenbrier Loop Road 3.85 mi south Rt. 321, 6 mi south Sugarlands Visitor Center, 7 mi south Sugarlands Visitor Center. (179 specimens)

Elevation range: 1360–5950ft. (415–1814 m)

General distribution: Distributed from Nova Scotia and Ontario in Canada. In the U.S. it ranges from Maine south to North Carolina and Tennessee and west to Wisconsin.

MAP 50. Collecting localities of Pseudorthodes vecors .

Larval hosts: Feeds on herbaceous plants, such as daisy ( Chrysanthemum sp. , Asteraceae ), white heath aster ( Symphyotrichum ericoides (L.) G.L. Nesom var. ericoides , Asteraceae ), jewelweed ( Impatiens capensis Meerb. , Balsaminaceae ), and common plantain ( Plantago major L., Plantaginaceae ) ( Godfrey 1972). Larvae obtained from eggs were reared on common dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. , Asteraceae ) ( Godfrey 1972).

Figures

FIGURES 89–96. Adults. 89, Orthodes goodelli, m, Maryland, Howard Co., Patuxent State Park, Hipsley’s Mill, 22 May 1981, D.C. Ferguson; 90, Orthodes goodelli, m, Canada, Ontario, Hymers, 8 June 1910; 91, Protorthodes oviduca, f, Canada, Ontario, Hymers, 13 June 1912; 92, Protorthodes oviduca, m, Canada, Nova Scotia, Anig. Co., Brierly Brook, 28 June 1954, D.C. Ferguson; 93, Protorthodes oviduca, m, Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax Co., Halifax Watershed, near Big Indian Lake, 6 June, D.C. Ferguson; 94, Pseudorthodes vecors, f, Tennessee, Cocke Co., 1.2 mi from state route 32 on road to Cosby campground, 1910 ft., 28 July 2007, M. Pogue, D. Adamski, M. Metz, GSMNP 1022; 95, Pseudorthodes vecors, m, Tennessee, Cocke Co., Cosby, vic. ATBI house, 1750 ft., 22–25 June 2001; 96, Pseudorthodes vecors, f, Tennessee, Sevier Co., Jake’s Creek Trail, above campsite #27, 3600 ft., 23 July 2004, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00221814.

FIGURES 97–104. Adults. 97, Pseudorthodes vecors, m, North Carolina, Haywood Co., Balsam Mtn. picnic area, on Flat Creek Trail, 5265 ft., 28 June 2004, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00221059; 98, Tricholita signata, m, North Carolina, Haywood Co., Purchase Knob, NE of house, field, 4925 ft., 31 July 2003, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00156862; 99, Tricholita signata, m, North Carolina, Haywood Co., Purchase Knob, NE of house, field, 4925 ft., 2 Aug. 2003, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00218886; 100, Ulolonche culea, f, New York, 4 June 1901; 101, Ulolonche culea, f, New York, Long Island, 6 June 1901; 102, Ulolonche culea, f, Maryland, Montgomery Co., Colesville, 30 May 1988, D.C. Ferguson; 103, Ulolonche modesta, f, New Jersey, Ocean Co., Lakehurst, Wrangle Brook Rd., 3 June 1956, D.C. Ferguson; 104, Ulolonche modesta, m, Indiana, Newton Co., Conrad Savanna, 41o 06.4’ N, 87o 26.5’ N, 23 May 1997, E.H. Metzler.