Lacinipolia lorea (Guenée) Bridled Arches

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 45

40. Lacinipolia lorea (Guenée) Bridled Arches

( Fig. 75 , Map 41)

Identification: Forewing length 12–15 mm. Forewing ground color is yellowish brown with a darker median area and lighter subterminal and terminal areas. Antemedial line is obscure, but most distinct as two contiguous curved lines, one between Cu and A veins and the second between A vein and posterior margin. Median area dark yellowish brown with the orbicular and reniform spots a lighter yellowish brown thinly outlined with brown. Postmedial line brown, slightly angled toward posterior margin from veins R4 to M2 then abruptly angled proximally to posterior margin. Subterminal and terminal areas indistinguishable, yellowish brown with veins and terminal line brown. Hindwing is gray with yellowish brown fringe.

Flight period: Late May to June and August, two broods annually.

Collected localities: North Carolina : Haywood Co., Cove Creek Road, Mt. Sterling Trail , Purchase Knob, Purchase Knob at house, Purchase Knob NW of house in forest, Purchase Knob on road in meadow; Swain Co., Big Cove Road site b, Big Cove Road site c, Big Cove Road site p, 8.3 mi NW of GSMNP entrance on Hwy. 441 Kephart Prong Trail, Oconaluftee Staff Apartments . Tennessee: Blount Co., Tremont; Sevier Co. , Alum Cave pulloff, above Chimneys Campground. (32 specimens)

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

General distribution: Widely distributed across Canada from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to British Columbia. In the U.S. it ranges from Maine south to North Carolina and Tennessee and west throughout the Midwest to Washington and Oregon .

Larval hosts: A somewhat polyphagous species with a variety of hosts including gray birch ( Betula populifolia Marsh. , Betulaceae ), blueberry ( Vaccinium sp. , Ericaceae ), alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L., Fabaceae ), clover ( Trifolium sp. , Fabaceae ), spotted geranium ( Geranium maculatum L., Geraniaceae ), sweet fern ( Comptonia peregrina (L.) J.M. Coult., Myricaceae ), strawberry ( Fragaria sp. , Rosaceae ), and white meadowsweet ( Spiraea alba Du Roi var. latifolia (Aiton) Dippel , Rosaceae ) ( Godfrey 1972). Larvae obtained from eggs were reared on common dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg. , Asteraceae ) ( Godfrey 1972). MAP 41. Collecting localities of Lacinipolia lorea .

Figures

FIGURES 73–80. Adults. 73, Lacinipolia laudabilis, m, Virginia, Fairfax Co., Alexandria (Rose Hill), 1 Sep. 1976, P.A. Opler; 74, Lacinipolia laudabilis, f, South Carolina, Charleston Co., McClellanville, Wedge Plantation, 25 Apr. 1980, D.C. Ferguson; 75, Lacinipolia lorea, m, Tennessee, Blount Co., Tremont Env. Ctr., 1360 ft., 8 June 2002, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00153791; 76, Lacinipolia meditata, m, Tennessee, Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway, second overlook East, 21 Sep. 2000, D. & M. Davis, USNMENT 00153309; 77, Lacinipolia olivacea, m, Tennessee, Sevier Co., 1.3 mi W Jct. 441 & Clingmans Dome Road, Road Prong Trail, 5260 ft., 28 July 2003, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00156550; 78, Lacinipolia olivacea, f, North Carolina, Haywood Co., Purchase Knob, E of house, forest, 4838 ft., 31 July 2003, M.G. Pogue, USN- MENT 00156911; 79, Lacinipolia olivacea, f, North Carolina, Haywood Co., Purchase Knob, NE of house, field, 4925 ft., 2 Aug. 2003, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00218845; 80, Lacinipolia renigera, m, North Carolina, Haywood Co., Purchase Knob, N of house, forest, 4998 ft., 1 Aug. 2003, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00218653.