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Ottawa (Dunrobin), ON Canada
3 June 2003 11:39AM EST (top left)
5 June 2005 10:40PM EST (top right)
6 June 2004 8:45PM EST (bottom)
Lacinipolia anguina is one of seven species of Lacinipolia
that have been recorded from the Ottawa area (J.D. Lafontaine, pers. comm.,
2001), of which six are illustrated on this website. My thanks to Mr. J. T.
Troubridge and Dr. J. Donald Lafontaine of Agriculture Canada for
identifying the specimen
illustrated at top left, and for confirming my identification of the other two specimens
shown above, all of which were collected and given to the Canadian National
Collection in Ottawa.
Lacinipolia anguina has a gray forewing shaded with
darker gray, gray-brown and reddish brown shading. The basal area is
predominantly gray, followed by a slightly scalloped, double antemedial line
traced in black with pale gray filling. The median is darker gray somewhat
shaded with gray-brown. A small black crescent appears to mark the
location of the outer end of a claviform spot, often accompanied by some reddish
brown shading. The orbicular spot is somewhat elongated, angled slightly
outward at its lower end, outlined in black and filled with gray. The
reniform spot is outlined in black along its inner edge, with reddish brown fill
in the inner half; the outer half is pale gray, and the lower end appears to
touch and blend into the postmedial line. In the subterminal area, there
is some dark gray shading near the costa between the pm line and the subterminal
line. Just above the anal angle, a short black dash extends from the outer
margin to (and sometimes through) the subterminal line, sometimes with a visible
whitish mark where the st line crosses the dash. The inner margin of the
forewing is slightly concave. The hindwing is whitish to light gray, with some
gray-brown shading towards the outer margin.
According to Handfield (1999), the host plant for Lacinipolia
anguina is unknown. He indicates an adult flight season from about
mid-April into the second half of July for my general area.
My records to date for Lacinipolia anguina (each date
representing "the night of") are in the table below: |
