Ulolonche culea (Guenée) Sheathed Quaker

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 55

51. Ulolonche culea (Guenée) Sheathed Quaker

( Figs. 100–102 , Map 52)

Identification: Forewing length 12–16 mm. Forewing ground color is light brown to brown. Antemedial line is cream colored and angulate from costa to posterior margin. Orbicular spot is faint and can be either creamcolored or dark brown margined by cream-color. Reniform spot is dark brown margined by cream color. Postmedial line is cream colored, slightly curved at costa then angulate to posterior margin. Subterminal line is a series of dark brown spots between wing veins that can be obscure in some specimens. Hindwing is white variously suffused with brown being darker along posterior margin to completely brown with a faint discal spot.

Flight period: May.

Collected localities: North Carolina : Haywood Co., Cataloochee just off paved road to Cosby. Tennessee: Blount Co., Cades Cove Ranger Station, Cold Spring Gap , 0.1 mi west of Gregory Bald ; Cocke Co. , Cosby Ranger Station , Foothills Parkway , Foothills Parkway south overlook; Sevier Co. , Park Headquarters (10 specimens)

Elevation range: 1480–4929 ft. (451–1502 m)

General distribution: Distribution is from Maine to Florida and west from Kentucky and Michigan to Kansas and Texas.

Larval hosts: This is a deciduous tree-feeding species reared from red oak ( Quercus rubra L., Fagaceae ) and water oak ( Q. nigra L., Fagaceae ) ( Godfrey 1972).

MAP 52. Collecting localities of Ulolonche culea .

Figures

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.