Wing span: 78mm
Flight time: July - August
Description. FW gray, mottled with whitish, and with st line regularly dentate and contrastingly white. HW orange-red to scarlet-red with black bands; white, heavily barred fringe. Underside with white FW ground, white and reddish HW ground; all bands prominent; usually with well-marked discal lunule. The melanic form, "agatha" Beutenm?ller, is dark, smoky gray, but with white st line usually contrasting. An aberration with HW entirely black is "fletcheri" Beutenm?ller. 70-90 mm. H 33: 5. B & Mc l: 19 ("fletcheri"); 4: 6, 7 ("agatha"); 8:23 ("beaniana").
Similar species. Close to meskei, but that species usually smaller, with FW giving "dusty" impression. HW in meskei is slightly paler, tending toward salmon; with inner black band narrower, and tapering more gradually to point at or before inner margin; apex often with some orange. The discal lunule on HW underside is usually very faint or absent in meskei. Seesemirelicta.
Range. Southern Canada (Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia) to Pennsylvania and west throughout area.
Status. Common over most of range.
Larval foodplants. Poplars (Populus) and willows (Salix). Reared on Trembling Aspen (P. tremuloides) (TDS).
Notes. Moth rests head-up on tree trunks, often high. Captured feeding at night at milkweed and joe-pye-weed (MCN). Comes readily to baits.
Data from Legion of Night by Theodore Sargent.
Record # | Date | Locale | State | Lat/Lon | Collected By | Count |
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298792 | 2021-08-26 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.011732 -93.615039 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
358500 | 2020-09-10 | Luther College | Iowa | 43.314132 -91.802917 | Kirk Larsen | 1 |
272641 | 2020-07-31 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.016779 -93.616948 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
272640 | 2020-07-26 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.016779 -93.616948 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
272639 | 2020-07-18 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.016779 -93.616948 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
222378 | 2018-07-17 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.046946 -93.612282 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
222375 | 2018-07-11 | Inis Grove Park, Ames | Iowa | 42.046946 -93.612282 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
177117 | 2016-07-10 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
205575 | 2014-09-02 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
69134 | 2014-08-13 | Algona | Iowa | 43.06998 -94.23295 | Matt Kenne | 1 |
205574 | 2011-07-26 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
19735 | 2010-07-16 | Yellow River State Forest | Iowa | 43.1676 -91.254 | Doug Veal | 1 |
205573 | 2007-09-23 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
205572 | 2006-09-12 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
19731 | 2006-08-23 | Pleasant Creek State Recreation Area, Linn County | Iowa | 42.11952 -91.81215 | Jim Durbin | 1 |
19730 | 2006-08-01 | Pleasant Creek State Recreation Area, Linn County | Iowa | 42.11952 -91.81215 | Jim Durbin | 1 |
205571 | 2005-07-15 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
205570 | 2003-07-24 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
404 | 2003-07-18 | Behren's Pond Woodland State Preserve | Iowa | 42.118214 -91.754324 | Jim Durbin | 1 |
205569 | 2002-09-02 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
125590 | 2002-08-07 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
136493 | 2002-08-07 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
205568 | 2002-08-07 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
205567 | 2002-07-10 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
19733 | 2001-07-09 | Linn County, Iowa | Iowa | Location Protected | Keith Erickson | 1 |
19734 | 2001-07-09 | Linn County, Iowa | Iowa | Location Protected | Keith Erickson | 1 |
125592 | 2001-07-03 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
136495 | 2001-07-03 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
205566 | 2001-07-03 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
125591 | 1998-07-16 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
136494 | 1998-07-16 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
205565 | 1998-07-16 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
125593 | 1998-07-08 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
136496 | 1998-07-08 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
205564 | 1998-07-08 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
19270 | 1997-09-23 | Luther College | Iowa | 43.31333 -91.80306 | Simon Tenvelde | 1 |
357470 | 1997-09-23 | Luther College | Iowa | 43.313333 -91.803889 | Simon TenVelde | 1 |
19729 | 1981-07-24 | Linn County | Iowa | 42.027289 -91.67275 | Dennis Schlicht | 1 |
125594 | 1962-07-12 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
136497 | 1962-07-12 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
205563 | 1962-07-12 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |