Orthodes goodelli (Grote)

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 51-52

47. Orthodes goodelli (Grote) Goodell’s Arches

( Figs. 88–90 , Map 48)

Identification: Forewing length 13–17 mm. Forewing ground color is dark gray to ferruginous gray. Antemedial line is a wide white, slightly scalloped line from costa to posterior margin, but can be obscure or absent in some specimens. Orbicular spot ground color outlined with a few white scales and heavily bordered by black proximally and distally. Claviform spot is triangular and black and distinct on most specimens. Reniform spot is white with the center containing a few ground-color scales and bordered by black proximally and distally. Hindwing is gray with lighter fringe.

This species has a distinct white reniform spot and black claviform spot, which both O. majuscula and O. cynica lack.

MAP 48. Collecting localities of Orthodes goodelli .

Flight period: Late May to August. Collected localities: North Carolina : Haywood Co., Cataloochee pull off at Sal Patch Gap, Cataloochee service road off Cataloochee Road, Purchase Knob 1.1 rd. mi from house, Purchase Knob cabin, Purchase Knob NW of house, Purchase Knob E of house in field, Purchase Knob, Big Cove Road site p, Deep Creek Ranger Station, Forney Creek 0.4 km up trail from lake, 0.2 km W mouth Hazel Creek, 0.7 km up creek from mouth of Goldmine Creek, 0.7 km S Payne Cemetery, Ravensford. Tennessee: Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway 2.1 mi west Hwy. 321, Foothills Parkway East, Foothills Parkway first overlook; Sevier Co., Greenbrier picnic shelter, return on Greenbrier Loop Road 3.85 mi south Rt. 321, 7 mi south Sugarlands Visitor Center. (22 specimens)

Elevation range: 1570–4924 ft. (479–1501 m)

General distribution: Distributed across Canada from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia west to Saskatchewan. In the U.S. it ranges from Maine south to Florida and west to Illinois, and again in Montana, Colorado, and New Mexico.

Larval hosts: Unknown.

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.

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.