Ottawa (Dunrobin), ON Canada

17 July 2000  12:15AM  (left)

15 July 2000  12:05AM  (right)

These photographs languished in my file of "unknowns" for over a year; given this moth's "smudgy" appearance, I was not even sure that my photographs accurately depicted what it was supposed to look like.  This species is not illustrated in Covell, and I could not relate my images to Handfield's illustration of this species.  My thanks to Dr. Douglas C. Ferguson who, on a visit to the Canadian National Collection of Lepidoptera, pointed me in the direction of Itame exauspicata.  I consequently based this identification on comparison with specimens in the National Collection, and on the illustrations in McGuffin, W.C., Guide to the Geometridae of Canada (Lepidoptera) II. Subfamily Ennominae. 1 (Ottawa: Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada No. 86, 1972).  Thanks to Dr. J. Donald Lafontaine of Agriculture Canada for access to the latter resources.