Lacinipolia teligera (Morrison)

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 48-49

44. Lacinipolia teligera (Morrison)

( Fig. 82 , Map 45)

Identification: Forewing length 12–15 mm. Prothorax has a black medial line. Forewing ground color is gray with a black dash from base, below Cu vein. Orbicular and reniform spots are ground color outlined in white and bordered with black. There is an oblique black line from under orbicular spot to postmedial line. Subterminal line is inconspicuous except for a white spot margined with a few black scales at tornus. Hindwing is white with a few gray scales along margin and tips of veins gray to the being heavily suffused with gray scales from outer margin to middle of wing.

Flight period: September.

Collected localities: North Carolina : Haywood Co., Purchase Knob 1.1 rd. mi from house, Purchase Knob at house. Tennessee: Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway second overlook, Foothills Parkway East. (8 specimens)

Elevation range: 1800–4924 ft. (549–1501 m)

General distribution: Distributed from Massachusetts south to Tennessee and in the Midwest from Michigan, Kansas , and Texas.

Larval hosts: Unknown.

MAP 45. Collecting localities of Lacinipolia teligera .

Figures

FIGURES 81–88. Adults. 81, Lacinipolia renigera, f, North Carolina, Haywood Co., Cataloochee, NW of Palmer Chapel, 2650 ft., 19 May 2005, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00254492; 82, Lacinipolia teligera, m, Tennessee, Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway, second overlook East, 1800 ft., 21 Sep. 2000, D. &. M. Davis, USNMENT 00153254; 83, Orthodes majuscula, m, North Carolina, Haywood Co, Balsam Mtn. Rd. 6.1 mi N of Jct. Blue Ridge Parkway, on Hemphill Bald Trail, 5125 ft., 8 Oct. 2003, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00219202; 84, Orthodes majuscula, f, Tennessee, Sevier Co., Jake’s Creek Trail, below Campsite #27, 3595 ft., 24 July 2004, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00147176; 85, Orthodes cynica, m, Maryland, Montgomery Co., Colesville, 6 June 1975, D.C. Ferguson; 86, Orthodes cynica, m, Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax Co., Halifax Watershed, Bog E of Big Indian Lake, 26 June 1968, D.C. Ferguson; 87, Orthodes cynica, f, New York, Kings Co., Brooklyn, 6 June 1901; 88, Orthodes goodelli, m, North Carolina, Jackson Co., Balsam, 3200 ft., 20 June 1974, D.C. Ferguson.