Feltia herilis
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Description
19. Feltia herilis (Grote) Master’s Dart
(Fig. 23, Map 14)
Identification: Forewing length 15.0–19.0 mm. Forewing ground color is dark gray with contrasting blackishgray discal area. Orbicular spot is cut almost in half by R vein and outlined in cream and black, reniform spot is cream, outlined in black. This species is distinguished by the creamcolored streak that extends along the M vein and turns ventrad between veins Cu 1 and Cu 2. Hindwing is dark gray, becoming lighter basally with a faint discal spot.
Flight period: Collected from midAugust to midOctober.
Collected localities: North Carolina: Haywood Co., Cataloochee; Swain Co., Big Cove Road site b, Big Cove Road site c, Big Cove Road site p, Big Cove Road site w, Ravensford. Tennessee: Blount Co., vicinity of Cades Cove, Cades Cove near Ranger Station, Tremont; Cocke Co., Cosby ATBI house, Foothills Parkway East, Foothills Parkway, 2 nd overlook East; Sevier Co., Elkmont, Park Headquarters. (31 specimens)
MAP 14. Collecting localities of Felia herilis.
Elevation range: 1360–2600 ft. (415–792 m)
General distribution: Widespread, from Newfoundland across Canada to Yukon and British Columbia; in the eastern United States from Maine to panhandle of Florida, west to North Dakota, Missouri, and southcentral Texas; in the western United States in the Rocky Mountain region from Montana south to southern New Mexico and eastern Arizona, and in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho (Lafontaine 2004).
Larval hosts: The larva of F. herilis cannot be distinguished from that of the Dingy Cutworm (F. jaculifera (Guenée)). It is probably a general feeder (Lafontaine 2004).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.1215.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5064764 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/DE6D9544BF6DFFD15B7FFFE7356E4B6C (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/B89D6B58-561B-48A5-B7D7-51B5C30B93CC (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/2254ED3CBF76FFCD5A77FA0E318B4E0B (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ATBI
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Feltia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Grote
- Species
- herilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Feltia herilis (Grote, 1873) sec. Pogue, 2006
References
- Lafontaine, J. D. (2004) Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (part): Noctuinae, Agrotini. In: Hodges, R. W., Davis, D. R., Ferguson, D. C., Munroe, E. G., & Powell, J. A. (Eds.) The Moths of America North of Mexico, fasc. 25.1, Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas. 385 pp.