Flight Time.
Wing Span.
Description. FW light gray, generally similar to habilis. Female, more mottled, and with prominent basal dash, is "edna" Beutenm?ller. HW black, with mostly blackish fringe. Underside like flebilis. In form "lucetta" French, there is a heavy blackish shade running obliquely across FW (as in flebilis and "missouriensis." There is also a deep brown-black melanic form (B & Mc 2: 16). 60-70 mm. H 31: 11 "lucetta" as flebilis), 13. B & Mc 2: 13, 14 (female as form "edna"), 15 ("lucetta"), 16 (melanic).
Similar species. The blackish HW fringe will distinguish from most similar species. Some melanic angusi may approach residua, but underside differences (see residua) should permit distinction. The underside of insolabilis is always totally distinctive.
Range. Massachusetts to Georgia, and west and south throughout area. At present apparently very rare or absent in northern parts of range (recorded in Massachusetts and Connecticut in mid-1920s).
Status. Apparently subject to long-term fluctuations in abundance. Was widespread and common in 1890s and early decades of nineteenth century, but now rare or absent in the north, and generally uncommon in the south.
Larval foodpIants. Hickories (Carya). Pecan (Carya illinoensis) in Texas (AEB).
Data from Legion of Night by Theodore Sargent.
Record # | Date | Locale | State | Lat/Lon | Collected By | Count |
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279816 | 2020-07-30 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.048674 -93.611771 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
222321 | 2018-08-04 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.046946 -93.612282 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
222323 | 2018-08-04 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.046946 -93.612282 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
222324 | 2018-08-03 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.046946 -93.612282 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
222325 | 2018-08-03 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.046946 -93.612282 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
224706 | 2018-08-03 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.046946 -93.612282 | Paul Martsching | 2 |
222322 | 2018-08-02 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.046946 -93.612282 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
182153 | 2016-10-02 | Decatur County, Iowa | Iowa | Location Protected | Sibylla Brown | 1 |
108112 | 2014-09-28 | Wickiup Hill Outdoor Learning Area | Iowa | 42.08398 -91.7651 | Frank Olsen | 1 |
108427 | 2014-08-16 | Sedan Bottoms Wildlife Management Area | Iowa | 40.66194444 -92.78305556 | Tom Jantscher | 1 |
108438 | 2014-08-16 | Sedan Bottoms Wildlife Management Area | Iowa | 40.66194444 -92.78305556 | Tom Jantscher | 1 |
132692 | 2014-07-17 | Decatur County, Iowa | Iowa | Location Protected | Sibylla Brown | 1 |
125530 | 2004-08-25 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
138149 | 2004-08-25 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
19538 | 2003-08-16 | Wanatee County Park | Iowa | 42.00994 -91.57749 | Frank Olsen | 1 |
125528 | 2001-07-20 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.046946 -93.612282 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
138147 | 2001-07-20 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.046946 -93.612282 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
125529 | 2001-07-10 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
138148 | 2001-07-10 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |