Orthosia garmani (Grote)

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 19-20

10. Orthosia garmani (Grote) Garman’s Quaker

( Figs. 20–21 , Map 11)

Identification: Forewing length 15–19 mm. Male has serrate antennae, filiform in female. Forewing ground color is dark reddish brown. Antemedial and postmedial lines are faint and cream-colored. Orbicular and reniform spots are faint and cream-colored to light reddish brown with black borders distally and proximally on the orbicular spot and only proximally on the reniform spot. Subterminal line is black and consists of a subapical black spot that is usually connected to a series of four contiguous black spots by a thin line of black scales. Hindwing is dirty white suffused with reddish-brown scales, a faint discal spot is present, and terminal line is absent.

Flight period: March.

Collected localities: Tennessee: Sevier Co., Park Headquarters. (2 specimens)

Elevation range: 1480 ft. (451 m)

General distribution: An eastern and midwestern species distributed from New York south to Tennessee and west to North Dakota, Kansas, and Texas.

Larval hosts: Larvae obtained from eggs have been reared from chokecherry ( Prunus virginiana L., Rosaceae ), cherry ( Prunus spp. ), black walnut ( Juglans nigra L., Juglandaceae ), sugar maple ( Acer saccharum Marsh. , Aceraceae ) ( Godfrey 1972). McFarland (1967) also reared this species from eggs on elm ( Ulmus sp. , Ulmaceae ) and dogwood ( Cornus sp. , Cornaceae ) and mentions that it is probably a general feeder on woody plants.

MAP 11. Collecting localities of Orthosia garmani .

Figures

FIGURES 17–24. Adults. 17, Morrisonia triangula, f, South Carolina, Charleston Co., McClellanville, Wedge Plantation, 7 Apr. 1977, D.C. Ferguson; 18, Orthosia alurina, f, New York, Tompkins Co., Ithaca, Forest Home, Golf Course Woods, 23 Apr. 1961, D.C. Ferguson; 19, Orthosia alurina, f, New York, Tompkins Co., Ithaca, Forest Home, Golf Course Woods, 23 Apr. 1961, D.C. Ferguson; 20, Orthosia garmani, f, Connecticut, New Haven Co., Bethany, 6 Apr. 1969, D.C. Ferguson; 21, Orthosia garmani, f, Pennsylvania, Bucks Co., Reading, 9 Apr. 1959; 22, Orthosia hibisci, f, New York, 30 Mar. 1905; 23, Orthosia hibisci, m, Connecticutt, New Haven Co., New Haven, Yale Preserve, 17 Apr. 1964, D.C. Ferguson; 24, Orthosia revicta, f, New York, Tompkins Co., Ringwood Reserve near Dryden, 2 May 1965, D.C. Ferguson.