Homorthodes lindseyi (Benjamin)

Pogue, Michael G., 2010, The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA 2380, Zootaxa 2380 (1), pp. 1-75 : 41

35. Homorthodes lindseyi (Benjamin) Southern Scurfy Quaker

( Figs. 64–65 , Map 36)

Identification: Forewing length 10–13 mm. The forewing ground is ferruginous with a varying amount of black scales suffused throughout wing resulting in some specimens being darker than others. Forewing veins are highlighted with black and white scales. Orbicular and reniform spots are pale ferruginous and are not outlined. At the base of the reniform and end of discal cell are two small white spots that can vary in intensity. Postmedial line is pale ferruginous, sinuate, bordered by scattered black scales proximally, and can be obscure to absent in darker specimens. Subterminal line pale ferruginous and separates the usually darker forewing from the paler terminal area. Hindwing is white suffused with gray especially along the posterior margin to completely gray.

Flight period: Late April to May and August to early September, indicating two broods annually.

Collected localities: North Carolina : Haywood Co., Purchase Knob at house; Swain Co., Big Cove Road site b, Big Cove Road site c, Big Cove Road site p, 300 ft. above lake on Welch Ridge, Hazel Creek Bradshaw Cemetary . Tennessee: Cocke Co., Cosby Ranger Station , Foothills Parkway south overlook, Foothills Parkway 1.3 mi N of 321, Foothills Parkway N of 3 rd pullout. (19 specimens)

Elevation range: 1720–2198 and 4800 ft. (524–670 and 1463 m)

General distribution: Distributed from Massachusetts south to Georgia and west to Missouri and Kansas.

Larval hosts: Little is known about the breadth of this species hosts. Recorded hosts include cherry ( Prunus sp. , Rosaceae ), black cherry ( Prunus serotina Ehrh. , Rosaceae ), and dead oak leaves ( Godfrey 1972). MAP 36. Collecting localities of Homorthodes lindseyi

Figures

FIGURES 57–64. Adults. 57, Leucania scirpicola, m, Florida, Highlands Co., Lake Placid, Archbold Biological Station, 5 Apr. 1962, D.C. Ferguson; 58, Leucania ursula, m, Tennessee, Blount Co., Campsite 6 along Scott Mtn. Trail, 3324 ft., 5 Aug. 2003, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00219091; 59, Mythimna unipuncta, f, North Carolina, Swain Co., 3.3 mi NE Clingmans Dome parking lot, on Fork Ridge Trail, 5780 ft., 4 June 2003, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00155405; 60, Mythimna unipuncta, f, North Carolina, Swain Co., 1.2 mi NE Clingmans Dome parking lot, Noland Divide Trail, 6000 ft., 30 July 2003, M.G. Pogue, USNMENT 00156724; 61, Homorthodes furfurata, f, California, Del Norte Co., Rowdy Creek Road, 6 mi E Smith River, ca. 2000 ft., 25 July 1990, D.C. Ferguson; 62, Homorthodes furfurata, f, Canada, Nova Scotia, Hunts Co., Smiley Brook Prov. Park, nr. Brooklyn, 20 July 1970, D.C. Ferguson; 63, Homorthodes furfurata, f, South Dakota, Pennington Co., Hill City, Joe Dollar Gulch, 13 July 1964, D.C. Ferguson; 64, Homorthodes lindseyi, f, New Jersey, Ocean Co., Lake Hurst, 11 Aug. 1920, F. Lemmer.

FIGURES 65–72. Adults. 65, Homorthodes lindseyi, f, Maryland, Montgomery Co., Colesville, 29 May 1975, D.C. Ferguson; 66, Lacinipolia anguina, m, Connecticut, New Haven Co., New Haven, West Rock Park, 24 May 1966, D.C. Ferguson; 67, Lacinipolia anguina, m, Connecticut, New Haven Co., New Haven, West Rock Park, 24 May 1966, D.C. Ferguson; 68, Lacinipolia explicata, f, South Carolina, Charleston Co., McClellanville, Wedge Plantation, 8 Apr. 1970, D.C. Ferguson; 69, Lacinipolia explicata, f, Maryland, Anne Arundel Co., South Haven, 15 Aug. 1992, H.G. Stevenson; 70, Lacinipolia implicata, f, Tennessee, Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway, second overlook East, 21 Sep. 2000, D. & M. Davis, USNMENT 00153263; 71, Lacinipolia implicata, m, Tennessee, Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway, second overlook East, 21 Sep. 2000, D. & M. Davis, USNMENT 00153261; 72, Lacinipolia implicata, m, Tennessee, Cocke Co., Foothills Parkway, second overlook East, 21 Sep. 2000, D. & M. Davis, USNMENT 00153260.