Ulolonche modesta (Morrison) Modest Quaker

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 55-56

52. Ulolonche modesta (Morrison) Modest Quaker

( Figs. 103–104 , Map 53)

Identification: Forewing length 10–13 mm. Forewing ground color is gray. This is a variable species than can either be lightly marked ( Fig. 103 ) or heavily marked ( Fig. 104 ). Lightly marked specimens have a faint to absent basal line; antemedial line faint, zig-zag; medial line dark gray from costa to dark gray spot at end of discal cell then slightly angulate and continuing to posterior margin; orbicular and reniform spots absent; postmedial line faint, parallel to medial line and converging with medial line at a faint dark gray spot on the posterior margin; subterminal line can be absent or a series of small spots; terminal area dirty white, barely contrasting with ground color. Heavily marked specimens have an angulate, black basal line; antemedial line black, zig-zag; orbicular spot white with a pale gray center; ground color from base to medial line pale gray; medial line black, bolder from costa to black spot obscuring base of reniform spot then angulate to posterior margin; reniform spot white with pale gray center; postmedial line black and pale gray, curving around reniform spot and converging with medial line at a black spot on the posterior margin; subterminal line an irregular border with pale gray terminal area; area from medial line to subterminal line dark gray; terminal line a series of black dashes between wing veins. Hindwing is dark gray with a faint discal spot.

Flight period: Mid-May in Park.

Collected localities: Tennessee: Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway south overlook. (2 specimens)

Elevation range: 1860 ft. (567 m)

General distribution: This is an eastern species distributed from Maine to North Carolina west to Tennessee, Michigan, and Indiana. This species is associated with sandy soils in Ohio ,

Larval hosts: Unknown.

MAP 53. Collecting localities of Ulolonche modesta .

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.