North American Lepidoptera Biodiversity LLC

 

CONTRIBUTIONS TO A CHECK LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTHERN FLORIDA

 

Macrolepidoptera Families: Thyatiridae, Drepanidae, Geometridae, Epiplemidae, Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Riodinidae, Nymphalidae, Mimallonidae, Lasiocampidae, Apatelodidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, and Noctuidae; also including: Yponomeutidae, Attevidae, Urodidae, Cossidae, Lacturidae, Zygaenidae, Megalopygidae, Limacodidae, Epipyropidae, and Thyrididae

 

By Hugo L. Kons Jr. & Robert J. Borth

 

Posted on the Web 18 August 2007

 

Most Recent Update 14 December 2008

 

*For detailed information on the included species in a formal scientific paper, including specific localities of collection, presentation and analysis of habitat data,  recorded and extrapolated flight season data (summarized to sixth of month intervals), and status (resident, migrant, stray, etc.) see:

 

Kons, Hugo L. Jr. and Robert J. Borth.  2006.  Contributions to a study of the diversity, distribution, habitat association, and phenology of the Lepidoptera of Northern Florida.  North American Journal of Lepidoptera Biodiversity.  Volume I: 1-231.

 

For images of the below species and a discussion of how to identify them, see completed portions of our On Line Guide to the Lepidoptera of Northern Florida. 

 

Provide comments, questions, or feedback to hkonsjr@yahoo.com

 

Abstract:  We list 1036 species of Macrolepidoptera that we have recorded in our north Florida surveys since late August of 1996, 30 species of Macrolepidoptera for which we have examined specimens labeled from northern Florida, plus 41 species that we have recorded from northern Florida in the families Yponomeutidae, Attevidae, Urodidae, Cossidae, Lacturidae, Zygaenidae, Megalopygidae, Limacodidae, Epipyropidae, and Thyrididae.  We include three additional lists for Macrolepidoptera species reported from northern Florida in the literature: (1) 91 species of probable, possible, or unknown authenticity, (2) 129 species of doubtful authenticity, and (3) 25 species names which we consider to be synonyms of other species on our list.

 

Introduction:  The below check list is to a large extent the same list published in NAJLB Volume I (Kons and Borth, 2006), but with just the species names and without all of the detailed additional data and analyses presented in Volume I.  However, we are using this on-line list as a means of providing updates to the Kons and Borth (2006) list, including new species which we have added to our north Florida list, and any changes we have made in our understanding of species concepts. 

Species listed below which were not included in the Kons and Borth (2006) check list are designated “[NEW ADDITION].”  These species were not necessarily collected subsequent to Kons and Borth (2006); we have added some species from HLK’s backlog material, and we have added some species we did not include in Kons and Borth (2006) because we were less certain of the determinations or taxonomy at that time. 

There are a few cases where our species concepts have changed from those used in Kons and Borth (2006), and all changes for names applied at the species level from Kons and Borth (2006) are noted below.  We are in the process of testing species concepts for many quadrafine Noctuidae with the first 658 DNA base pairs of the COX1 mitochondrial gene.  We are submitting samples for sequencing to the University of Guelph, and testing species concepts with phylogenetic analyses conducted with TNT and PAUP.  To date our most extensive DNA data is for species in the genus Catocala, and there have been several surprising results with implications for species level taxonomy of some Florida Catocala species.

We do not always note changes made at the genus level, although there are some cases where different generic names are applied in the below updated list.  All species are referenced with their original Hodges et al. (1983) checklist number, excluding those species not included in this publication.

            The main part of the list includes only species we have personally collected or examined specimens for from northern Florida.  We did not integrate in literature records for species for which we have not examined any Florida specimens as of yet, because we think there are many erroneous records reported from northern Florida in both Kimball (1965) and Heppner (2003).  We list the literature records separately at the end of this checklist in three sections.  The first includes literature records which we think are of probable or possible validity for northern Florida, and literature records for species we know too little about to know if north Florida records are reasonable.  The second section includes species we suspect are reported from northern Florida in error.  The third section includes names which we consider to be synonyms of names on our main list. 

            In the main list we distinguish between species we have personally collected on our north Florida surveys and those we have not encountered but for which we have examined specimens labeled from northern Florida.  The species we have encountered on our north Florida surveys appear in black font, whereas those we have not encountered appear in green font with “Examined” or some other annotation in [square brackets].  Some species were designated as literature records in Kons and Borth (2006), but we have subsequently collected these species or added records from our backlog material.  We use the following notations:

 

[L to C]  Reported as a literature record in Kons and Borth (2006), but this species has now been recorded from our north Florida surveys.

[L to E]   Reported as a literature record in Kons and Borth (2006), but we have subsequently examined one or more specimens labeled from northern FL.

[E to C]  Reported as a species for which we had examined FL specimens in Kons and Borth (2006), but we have subsequently added records from our north FL surveys.

 

Institutional Acronyms

 

FSCA: Florida State Collection of Arthropods

NMNH: National Museum of Natural History: Smithsonian Institution

           

            A number of species occur in northern Florida which to the best of our knowledge are undescribed.  In some cases, two or more species are going under one name, and we do not know for which species the name should be correctly applied.  In these cases, after the specific epiphyte we designated these species as “complex species 1,” “complex species 2,” etc.  For some of the undescribed species, we have seen them separated in other collections or on other web sites, and the senior author concurs with these species concepts.  For others, the species concepts we use are those of the senior author.  In such cases, we annotate the species designation with “(as hypothesized by Kons).”

            For the purposes of this check list, “northern Florida” includes the Florida panhandle and the northern portion of the peninsula south to the latitude of the Withlacoochee State Forest in Hernando County.  This area is not delimited biogeographically, but rather is an area with a limited range of climatic change in which we have a concentrated number of study sites (see below map).  The political unit of Florida would constitute a very poor unit of analysis for phenology or habitat data, because the climate and habitats in subtropical Florida are so markedly different from those in northern Florida.

 

 

 

Results:  To date we have recorded 1036 species of Macrolepidoptera among our north Florida surveys since late August of 1996.  We have recorded 41 species from northern Florida in the families Yponomeutidae, Attevidae, Urodidae, Cossidae, Lacturidae, Zygaenidae, Megalopygidae, Limacodidae, Epipyropidae, and Thyrididae.  We have examined specimens labeled from northern Florida for 30 Macrolepidoptera species we did not encounter on our north Florida surveys to date.  Literature records for north Florida include 91 additional Macrolepidoptera species that we consider to be of probable or possible occurence for northern Florida, or that we know too little about to judge if north Florida records are reasonable.  Another 129 Macrolepidoptera species are reported from northern Florida in the literature which are probably errors (in our judgment).  Twenty-five additional species names are reported which we consider to be synonyms of other species on our list.

 

Discussion:  We are still a ways from being able to produce a check list which we judge to approach a thorough representation of the Macrolepidoptera species which occur in northern Florida.  Our collecting over the last ten years has produced over 60 Macrolepidoptera species which to our knowledge had never been previously reported from Florida, and we have by no means covered the full range of habitats or geographic area of northern Florida throughout the season.  In addition, there are a large number of literature records we cannot verify.  These records range from species expected to occur in northern Florida to blatant errors, with plenty of records representing shades of grey between these extremes.  Finally, there are a number of genera or species groups occurring in northern Florida that are badly in need of revision.  However, in our judgment the current check list is useful for showing a large number Macrolepidoptera species that have been recorded from northern Florida with reliable collection data and authoritative determinations.

 

Images:  We are working on an On Line Guide to the Lepidoptera of Northern Florida which will illustrate the species on the below list.  For completed sections, a family or subfamily name in the below check list is highlighted blue with a hyperlink, or multiple hyperlinks appear after a subfamily if the guide includes multiple sections for that subfamily.  Some scattered images are also available for some species in the various sections of our web page on the Lepidoptera Habitats of Northern Florida.  For some species not yet covered in completed sections of the on line guide, a link is provided to a page in the Lepidoptera Habitats of Northern Florida where the species is illustrated.

 

Help us update and improve this list:  We would welcome additional records for species in the included families for northern Florida, or the opportunity to verify records reported in the literature for which we have not yet seen any specimens.  In order to add a species to the list, the senior author will need to see a voucher specimen or a high quality image of a voucher specimen.  We would very much welcome donations of such specimens or images, or alternatively Lepidopterists are welcome to visit the senior author in Gainesville where he can take high quality images of specimens at the American Entomological Institute.  Those who contribute additional records will be listed in the acknowledgments, and the collector will be designated for new species we add to the list.  Please note that the North American Lepidoptera Biodiversity LLC only accepts distributional records supported by voucher specimens, in order to promote accuracy and verifiability of information reported in our journal and on line publications.  If you can help, please contact the senior author at hkonsjr@yahoo.com. 

 

 

References:  References are listed on the master page to our On Line Guide to the Lepidoptera of Northern Florida.

 

Acknowledgments:  Our acknowledgments for our Florida Lepidoptera research are provided on the master page to our On Line Guide to the Lepidoptera of Northern Florida.

 

 

Macrolepidoptera Species Collected or Examined from Northern Florida by the Authors

 

Species in black font were collected during the authors’ north Florida surveys since 1996, and for most of them information on flight season, habitat, and localities of collection are presented in Kons and Borth (2006). 

 

Species in green font were not collected during the authors’ north Florida surveys, but we have examined specimens labeled as having been collected in northern Florida.

 

Species in orange font were not included in Kons and Borth (2006).

 

Numbers of species recorded for higher taxa above the genus level appear to the right of the higher taxa names.

 

MACROLEPIDOPTERA          1066 (1036 recorded from our surveys since 1996, 30 examined)

DREPANOIDEA                             3      

THYATIRIDAE                                             1

6240    Euthyatira pudens

DREPANIDAE                                             2

Drepaninae                                                    1

6253    Eudeilinea herminiata

Oretinae                                                         1

6255    Oreta rosea

GEOMETROIDEA                          179

GEOMETRIDAE                                            177

Ennominae                                                    105

6270    Proitame virginalis                           [NEW ADDITION]

6272    Eumacaria latiferrugata

6273    Itame pustularia

6285    Itame inextricata                                 [L to C]

6299    Itame coortaria

6314    Itame varadaria

6322    Mellilla xanthometata

6326    Semiothisa aemulataria

6331    Semiothisa promiscuata

6335    Semiothisa aequiferaria

6336    Semiothisa distribuaria

6337    Semiothisa sanfordi

6339    Semiothisa transitaria

6341    Semiothisa bicolorata

6353    Semiothisa multilineata

6357    Semiothisa eremiata

6360    Semiothisa quadrinotaria

6362    Semiothisa continuata

6405    Semiothisa gnophosaria

6419    Enconista dislocaria

            Hypomecis longipectinaria

6438    Hypomecis bucholzaria?

            Hypomecis sp.

6442    Pimaphera sparsaria

6443    Glenoides texanaria

6449    Glena cibritaria

6450    Glena cognataria

6452    Glena plumosaria

6478    Exelis pyrolaria

6485    Tornos cinctarius

6486    Tornos scolopacinarius

6571    Iridopsis cypressaria                                       Images

6580    Iridopsis pergracilis                                         Images

6582    Iridopsis vellivolata

6583    Iridopsis ephyraria

6584    Iridopsis humaria

6586    Iridopsis defectaria

6590    Anavitrinelia pampinaria

6594    Cleora sublunaria

6595    Cleora projecta

6597    Ectropis crepuscularia

6598    Protoboarmia porcelaria

6599    Epimecis hortaria

6616    Melanochroia chephise

6620    Melanolophia canadaria

6621    Melanolophia signataria

6652    Lycia ypsilon

6654    Hypagyrtis unipunctata

6655    Hypagyrtis esther

6657    Hypagyrtis brendae                            Images

6658    Phigalia titea

6659    Phigalia denticulata

6660    Phigalia strigitaria

6663    Paleacrita merriccata

6667    Lomographa vestaliata

6668    Lomographa glomerularia

6677    Cabera eurythemaria

6704    Erastria coloraria

6705    Erastria cruentaria

6711    Thysanopyga intractata

6713    Episemasia solitaria

6720    Lytrosis unitaria

6721    Lytrosis sinuosa                                  [L to C]

6726    Euchlaena obtusaria

6731    Euchlaena madusaria

6733    Euchlaena amoenaria

6735    Euchlaena pectinaria

6742    Xanthotype rufaria

6743    Xanthotype sospeta (=attenuaria)

6745    Cymatophora approximaria

6746    Stenaspilatodes antidiscaria

6752    Pero zalissaria                         Images

6754    Pero hubneraria

6763    Nacophora quernaria

6780    Ceratonyx satanaria

6796    Campaea perlata

6798    Ennomos subsignaria

6800    Sphacelodes vulneraria                      [E to C]

6803    Petrophora divisaria

6805    Tacparia zalissaria

6828    Metarranthis homuraria

6832    Metarranthis obfirmaria

            Metarranthis sp.

6834    Cepphis decoloraria

6837    Probole alienaria

6839.1 Probole nyssaria

6843    Plagodis fervidaria

6858    Lychnosea intermicata

6869    Caripeta aretaria

6885    Besma quercivoraria

6888    Lambdina fiscellaria

6889    Lambdina pultaria

6908    Nepytia semiclusaria

6933    Eusarca fundaria

6941    Eusarca confusaria

6963    Tetracis crocallata

6966    Eutrapela clemataria

6967    Oxydia vesulia

6974    Patalene olyzonaria

6982    Prochoerodes transversata

6986    Nepheloleuca floridata

6987    Antepione thiosaria

6994    Sericoptera virginaria                      [Examined]

7009    Nematocampa resistaria

            Nematocampa baggetaria Fgn.

Geometrinae                                      16       

7028    Nemoria extremaria

7029    Nemoria elfa

7031    Nemoria catachloa

7032    Nemoria outina                                   Image

7033    Nemoria lixiaria

7034    Nemoria saturiba

7045    Nemoria bifilata

7046    Nemoria bistriaria

7051    Phrudocentria centrifugaria

7053    Dichorda iridaria

7059    Synchlora frondaria

7060    Synchlora xysteraria

7064    Synchlora cupedinaria

7071    Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria

7075    Chloropteryx tepperaria

7084    Hethemia pistasciaria

Sterrhinae                                                      35

7087    Euacidalia sericearia

7094    Lobocleta ossularia

7097    Lobocleta plemyraria

7100    Lobocleta peralbata

7105    Idaea scintillularia

7108    Idaea furciferata

7114    Idaea demissaria

7115    Idaea eremiata

7118    Idaea hilliata

7119    Idaea micropterata

7120    Idaea violacearia

7121    Idaea ostentaria

7122    Idaea tacturata

7123    Idaea obfusaria

7124    Idaea retractaria?

7132    Pleuroprucha insulsaria

7136    Cyclophora packardi

7137    Cyclophora myrtaria (=7138)

7140    Cyclophora nanaria

7134    Cyclophora culicaria

7147    Timandra amaturaria

7149    Scopula lautaria

7151    Scopula aemulata

7152    Scopula compensata

7156    Scoupla umbilicata

7158    Scopula purata                                                Images

7159    Scopula limboundata

7160    Scopula timandrata

7161    Scopula ordinata

7173    Leptostales pannaria

7174    Leptostales crossii

7175    Leptostales hepaticaria

7177    Leptostales laevitaria

7181    Lophosis labeculata

            Undet. species

Larentiinae                                                     21

7196    Eulithis diversilineata

7197    Eulithis gracilineata

7214    Ecliptopera atricolorata

7237    Hydriomena transfigurata

7239    Hydriomena pluviata

            Hydriomena undet. species

7314    Hammaptera parinotata

7330    Anticlea multiferata

7414    Orthonama obstipata

7416    Orthonama centrostrigaria

7417    Disclisioprocta stellata

7428    Venusia comptaria

7440    Eubaphe mendica

7441    Eubaphe meridiana

7445    Horisme intestinata

7474    Eupithecia miserulata

7486    Eupithecia jejunata

            Eupithecia sp. FL 3

            Eupithecia sp. FL 4

7647    Heterophleps triguttaria

7648    Dyspteris abortivaria

EPIBLEMIDAE                                              2         

7653    Calledapteryx dryopterata

            Trotorhombia metachromata Walker                     [NEW ADDITION]

RHOPALOCERA                           127

HESPERIOIDEA                                            56

HESPERIIDAE                                               56

Pyrginae                                                         15       

3870    Epargyreus clarus

3886    Urbanus proteus

3889    Urbanus dorantes

3902    Autochton cellus                              [Examined]

3904    Achalarus lycaeides

3909    Thorybes bathyllus

3910    Thorybes pylades

3913    Thorybes confusis

3932    Staphylus hayhurstii

3946    Erynnis brizo

3947    Erynnis juvenalis

3952    Erynnis horatius

3956    Erynnis zarucco

3966    Pyrgus communis

3968    Pyrgus oileus

Hesperiinae                                                   39

3993    Nastra l'herminier

3995    Nastra neamathla

3998    Lerema accius

4004    Ancyloxpha numitor

4010    Copaeodes minima

4013    Hylephila phyleus

4029    Hesperia attalus

4030    Hesperia meskei

4040    Polites baracoa

4041    Polites themistocles

4042    Polites origenes

4045    Polites vibex

4046    Wallengrenia otho

4047    Wallengrenia egeremet

4048    Pompeius verna

4049    Atalopedes campestris

4050    Atrytone arogos                                [Examined in FSCA; col. Jeff Slotten]

4051    Atrytone logan

4052    Problema byssus

4060    Poanes zabulon

4062    Poanes aaroni                                     Images

4063    Poanes yehl                                        Images

4064    Poanes viator                                      Images

4070    Euphyes arpa                                      Images of Euphyes (excluding E. vestris)

4071    Euphyes pilatka

4072    Euphyes dion

4074    Euphyes dukesi

4076    Euphyes berryi

4078    Euphyes vestris

4079    Asbolis capunicus                            [New Addition: 27 Sept. 2007: SW Gainesville]

4080    Atrytonopsis hianna (=loammi)      [Examined]

4099    Amblyscirtes aesculapius                   Images

4108    Amblyscirtes alternata                     [Examined]

4111    Lerodea eufala

4114    Oligoria maculata

4115    Calpodes ethlius

4116    Panoquina panoquin                           Images of Panoquina panoquin and panoquinoides

4117    Panoquina panoquinoides

4119    Panoquina ocola

Megathyminae                                               2         

4145    Megathymus yuccae

4147    Megathymus cofaqui                        [Examined; col. Wayne Miller]

PAPILIONOIDEA     

PAPLIONIDAE                                              8

4157    Battus philenor

4158    Battus polydamus

4159    Papilio polyxenus

4170    Papilio cresephontes

4176    Papilio glaucus

4181    Papilio troilus

4182    Papilio palamedes

4184    Eurytides marcellus

PIERIDAE                                                      12

4193    Pontia protodice

4197    Pieris rapae

4198    Ascia monuste

4209    Colias philodice

4210    Colias eurytheme

4224    Zerene cessonia

4228    Phoebis sennae

4229    Phoebis philea

4237    Eurema lisa

4242    Eurema nicippe

4243    Eurema daira

4248    Nathalis iole

LYCAENIDAE                                                20       

4249    Feniseca tarquinius

4270    Atlides halesus

4331    Satyrium favonius

4282    Satyrium calanus

4284    Satyrium kingi

4285    Satyrium liparops

4275    Satyrium titus                                    [Examined]

4299    Calycopis cecrops

4318    Callophrys gryneus

4319    Callophrys hesseli                            [Examined in FSCA], Images

4326    Callophrys henrici                            [Examined]

4328    Callophrys niphon

4335    Parhassius m-album

4336    Strymon melinus

4354    Brephidium isophthalma                     Images

4356    Leptotes cassius

4359    Hemiargus ceraunus

4361    Everes comyntas

4363    Celastrina ladon

4363.1 Celastrina neglecta

RIODINIDAE                                                  1

4386    Calephelis virginiensis

NYMPHALIDAE                                            30

4411    Libytheana carinenta

4413    Agraulis vanillae

4418    Heliconius charitonius

4420    Polygonia interrogationis

4421    Polygonia comma

4432    Nymphalis antiopa

4434    Vanessa virginiensis

4435    Vanessa cardui

4437    Vanessa atlanta

4440    Junonia coenia

4443    Anartia jatrophe

4447    Euptoieta claudia

4476    Anthanassa texana

4480    Phyciodes phaon

4481    Phyciodes tharos

4490    Chlosyne nycteis

4522    Basilarchia arthemis

4523    Basilarchia archippus

4554    Anaea andria                          

4557    Astereocampa celtis

4562.1 Astereocampa clyton

4568    Enodia portlandia                                Images

4569    Satyrodes appalachia

4573    Cyllopsis gemma

4574    Hermeuptychia hermes

4576    Neonympha aerolata

4578    Megisto cymela

4587    Cercyonis pegala

4614    Danaus plexippus

4615    Danaus gilippus

MIMALLONOIDEA                         2

MIMALLONIDAE                                           2

7659    Lacosoma chiridota

7662    Cicinnus melsheimeri

LASIOCAMPOIDEA                      8

LASIOCAMPIDAE                                        8

Macromphaliinae                                          4

7670    Tolype velleda

7674    Tolype notialis

7675    Tolype minta                                                   Images

7683    Artace cibraria

Gastropachinae                                            2

7685    Heteropacha rileyana

7686    Phyllodesma occidentis

Lasiocampinae                                              2

7698    Malacosoma disstria

7701    Malacosoma americanum

BOMBYCOIDEA                            57

APATELODIDAE                                          2

7663    Apatelodes torrefacta

7665    Olceclostera angelica (=indistincta)

SATURNIIDAE                                              17       

Citheroniinae                                                 9

7704    Eacles imperialis

7706    Citheronia regalis

7708    Citheronia sepulcralis

7709    Sphingicampa bicolor

7715    Dryocampa rubicunda

7716    Anisota stigma

7718    Anisota consularis

7719    Anisota senatoria

7723    Anisota virginiensis

Hemileucinae                                                 2

7730    Hemileuca maia

7746    Automeris io

Saturniinae                                                    6

7757    Antheraea polyphemus

7758    Actias luna

7764    Callosamia promethea

7765    Callosamia angulifera

7766    Callosamia securifera

7767    Hyalophora cecropia

SPHINGIDAE                                                 38

Sphinginae                                                    21

7771    Agrius cingulata

7775    Manduca sexta

7778    Manduca rustica

7783    Manduca jasminearum

7784    Dolba hyloeus

7786    Ceratomia amyntor

7787    Ceratomia undulosa

7789    Ceratomia catalpae

7791    Isoparce cupressi                                                        Images

7793    Paratraea plebeja

7808    Sphinx franckii (we have not collected or examined this from FL, but James Adams (pers. com. 2006) has collected it in Jackson County

7810    Sphinx gordius

7816    Lapara coniferarum

7821    Smerinthus jamaicensis

7824    Paonias excaecatus

7825    Paonias myops

7826    Paonias astylus

7827    Lathoe juglandis

7832    Erinnyis alope

7834    Erinnyis ello

7837    Erinnyis obscura

Macroglossinae                                            17

7851    Enyo lugubris

7853    Hemaris thysbe

7854    Hemaris gracilis

7859    Eumorpha pandorus

7859.1 Eumorpha intermedia (Clark)          [Examined in FSCA]

7861    Eumorpha achemon

7865    Eumorpha fasciata

7870    Sphecodina abbottii

7871    Deidamia inscripta

7873    Amphion floridensis

7874    Proserpinus gaurae                          [Illustrated in Kimball (1965)]

7884    Darapsa versicolor

7885    Darapsa myron

7886    Darapsa pholus

7887    Xylophanes pluto                                [E to C]

7890    Xylophanes tersa

7894    Hyles lineata

NOCTUOIDEA                                692  

NOTODONTIDAE                                         49

7896    Clostera inclusa

7902    Datana ministra

7903    Datana angusii

7904    Datana drexelii

7905    Datana major

7906    Datana contractata

7907    Datana integerrima

7908    Datana perspicua

7909    Datana robusta

7911    Datana ranaeceps

7910    Datana modesta

7915    Nadata gibbosa

7917    Hyperaeschra georgica

7919    Peridea basitriens

7920    Peridea angulosa

7929    Nerice bidentata

7930    Ellida caniplaga

7931    Gluphisia septentrionis

7936    Furcula borealis

7937    Furcula cinerea

7942    Cerura scitiscripta

7951    Symmerista albifrons

7957    Dasylophia anguina

7958    Dasylophia thyatiroides

            Litodonta new sp.

7974    Misogoda unicolor

7975    Macrurocampa marthesia

7977    Heterocampa astarte

7982    Heterocampa varia

7983    Heterocampa obliqua

            Heterocampa new sp. nr. obliqua                   (as hypothesized by Kons)

7985    Heterocampa subrotata

7990    Heterocampa umbrata

7994    Heterocampa guttivitta

7995    Heterocampa biundata

            Heterocampa sp.

7998    Lochmaeus manteo

7999    Lochmaeus bilineata

8005    Schizura ipomoeae

8006    Schizura badia

8007    Schizura unicornis

8009    Scizura apicalis

8010    Schizura concinna

8011    Schizura leptinoides

            Schizura new sp.                              [Examined: Texas Lepidoptera Survey Collection (col. E. Knudson)]

8012    Oligocentria semirufescens

8017    Oligocentria lignicolor

8022    Hyparpax aurora

8026    Hyparpax perophoroides

NOCTUIDAE                                                             643

Herminiinae                                                   52

8322    Idia americalis

8323    Idia aemula

8326    Idia rotundalis

8327    Idia forbesi

8328    Idia julia

8329    Idia diminuendis

8333    Idia denticulalis

8334    Idia lubricalis

8336    Idia gopheri

8338    Phalaenophana pyramusalis

            Zanclognatha sp. nr. lituralis

            Zanclognatha minoralis complex species 1   (“Zanclognatha sp. nr. minoralis” in NAJLB Vol I) (as hypothesized by Kons)

            Zanclognatha minoralis complex species 2          (as hypothesized by Kons)     [NEW ADDITION]

            Zanclognatha species near theralis                       (as hypothesized by Kons)     [NEW ADDITION]

8346    Zanclognatha atrilineella

8347    Zanclognatha obscuripennis

            Zanclognatha cruralis complex species B            (as hypothesized by Kons)     [NEW ADDITION, but cruralis was reported in the literature]

8349    Zanclognatha protumnusalis

8350    Zanclognatha martha

8355    Chylotita morbidalis

8356    Chytolita petrealis

8357.1 Macrochilo hypocritialis Fgn.

8360    Macrochilo orciferalis

8361    Macrochilo louisiana

8364    Phalaenostola larentioides

8366    Tetanolita mynesalis

8368    Tetanolita floridana

8370    Bleptina caradrinalis

8371    Bleptina inferior

8372    Bleptina sangamonia

8375    Bleptina hydrillalis

8376    Hypenula cacuminalis

8378    Renia salusalis

8379    Renia factiosalis complex sp. 1                      (as hypothesized by Kons)

            Renia factiosalis complex sp. 2                      (as hypothesized by Kons)

8381    Renia discoloralis

8384.1 Renia flavipunctalis

8385    Renia fraternalis

8386    Renia adspergillus

            Renia sp. nr. adspergillus                                (as hypothesized by Kons)

8387    Renia sobrialis

8390    Aristaria theroalis

            Physula albipunctilla Schaus

8392    Phlyctaina irrigualis

8393    Lascoria ambigualis

8395    Lascoria alucitalis                                         [NEW ADDITION]

8396    Lascoria orneodalis

8397    Palthis angulalis

8398    Palthis asopialis

8400    Redectis pygmaea

8401    Redectis vitrea

            Undet. Hermiinae

Rivulinae                                                        7

8404    Rivula propinqualis

            Rivulla pusilla Moesh.

            Rivula new species                                         (as hypothesized by Kons, = “Undet. Rivulinae sp.” in NAJLB Vol. I)

8408    Oxycilla mitographa

8411    Colobochyla interpuncta

8412    Melanomma auricinctaria

8419    Prosoparia perfuscaria

Hypenodinae                                                 13       

            Hypenodes sp. nr. fractilinea species 1          (Kons agrees with Kimball (1965) that the FL Hypenodes is undescribed)

8427    Dyspyralis puncticosta

            Dyspyralis species

8430    Parahypenodes quadralis

8431    Schrankia macula

8432    Quandara brauneata

8433    Sigela penumbrata                                          (includes records reported as both penumbrata & “Sigela sp.” in NAJLB Vol. I)

            Sigela eoides complex species 1                   (as hypothesized by Kons)

            Note: The above species includes all records reported as “eioides” in Vol. I except for the locality of Pinhook Swamp)

            Sigela eioides complex species 2               (as hypothesized by Kons)                 [NEW ADDITION]

            Sigela eioides complex species 3               (as hypothesized by Kons)                 [NEW ADDITION]

            Sigela new species [=sp. 5]             (as hypothesized by Kons)                 [NEW ADDITION]

8437    Abablemma brimleyana

8440    Nigetia formosalis

Hypeninae      [Hypena, Other Genera]       20

8441    Hypena manalis

8442    Hypena baltimoralis

8442.1 Hypena ramstadtii

8443    Hypena bijugalis

8444    Hypena palparia

8445    Hypena abalienalis

8446    Hypena deceptalis

8447    Hypena mandefactalis

            Hypena vetustalis                                           (reported as “umbralis 8453?” in Vol. I)

8455    Hypena eductalis

            Hypena species near abjuralis                        (as hypothesized by Kons, reported as “abjuralis” in Vol. I)

8457    Hypena minualis

8459    Hypena degasalis

8465    Plathypena scabra

8467    Hemeroplanis scopulepes

8471    Hemeroplanis habitalis                                    (or possibly an undescribed species near habitalis, per James Adams’ web site)

8480    Phytometra ernestinana

8481    Phytometra rhodarialis cpx. species 1

8481    Phytometra rhodarialis cpx. species 2       [NEW ADDITION]

Note:  The separation of P. rhodarialis into 2 species in our data set is as hypothesized by Kons, but others have previously suggested there are two species under this name.  We do not know how HLK’s current species concepts compare with theirs.

8488    Hormoschista latipalpis

Catocalinae                                                    155

8490    Pangrapta decoralis

8491    Ledaea perditalis

8493    Isogona tenuis

8499    Metalectra discalis

8500    Metalectra quadrisignata

8502    Metalectra tantillus

8503    Metalectra diabolica

8505    Metalectra richardsi

            Metalectra geminicincta Schaus

8509    Arugisa latiorella

8510    Arugisa watsoni

8514    Scolecocampa liburna

8522    Gabara subnivosella

8523    Gabara distema                                              Images

8524    Gabara pulverosalis

8525    Phyprosoropus callitrichoides

8527    Hyposoropha monilis

8528    Hyposoropha hormos

8534    Plusiodonta compressipalpis

8543    Ophideres maturna

8545    Anomis erosa

8546    Anomis flava

8551    Anomis illita

8554    Alabama argillacea

8556    Litoprosopus futilis

8560    Dipthera festiva

8573    Metallata absumens

8574    Anticarsia gemmatalis

8579    Antiblemma concinnula

8582    Ephyrodes cacata

            Epidromia fergusoni Solis

8587    Panopoda rufimargo

8588    Panopoda carneicosta

8589    Panopoda repanda

8591    Phoberia atomaris

            Phoberia ingenua                                            (= “sp. 1a” in NAJLB 1)

Note: Douglas Ferguson discovered this name applies to this species, but he died before publishing his findings.  This name is in now in usage elsewhere on the web, so we will use it as well)

            Phoberia new sp. 1b                                       (as hypothesized by Kons)

            Phoberia new sp.  2                                        (as hypothesized by Kons)

            Phoberia  new sp.  3                                       (as hypothesized by Kons)

8592    Cissusa spadix

8599    Melipotis fasciolaris

8600    Melipotis indomita

8603    Melipotis januaris

8607    Melipotis jucunda

8610    Melipotis acontioides

8618    Drasteria graphica

8641    Drasteria grandirena

8642    Hypocala andremona

8645    Hemeroblemma opigena                                [Examined in FSCA]

8649    Ascalapha odorata

8651    Lesmone detrahens

8653    Lesmone hinna

8658    Selenesia sueroides

8665    Conipeta bibitrix                                              [Illustrated in Kimball (1965) from Alachua County]

8666    Metria amella

8667    Metria bilineata                                             [NEW ADDITION]

8683    Zale coracias

8687    Zale fictilis

8689    Zale lunata

8690    Zale smithi                                                     [NEW ADDITION]

8691    Zale declarans

8692    Zale galbanata

8694    Zale aeruginosa

8697    Zale minerea

8698    Zale phaeocapna

8699    Zale obliqua

            Zale nr. obliqua sp. 1                                       (as hypothesized by Kons)

            Zale sp. nr. squamularis                                  (as hypothesized by Kons)

8701    Zale confusa

8709    Zale curema

8706    Zale bucholzi

            Zale sp. nr. bucholzi

8708    Zale metata

8713    Zale lunifera complex

8714    Zale calycanthata

8717    Zale horrida

8718    Zale perculta                                                   Images

8721    Allotria elonympha

8724    Dysgonia consobrina

8725    Dysgonia similis

8726    Dysgonia smithii

8727    Parallelia bistriaris

8728    Cutina albopunctella                                       Cutina Images

8729    Cutina distincta

            Cutina aluticolor Pogue & Fgn.

            Cutina arcuata Pogue & Fgn.

8733    Caenurgia chloropha

8739    Caenurgina erechtea

8743    Mocis latipes

8744    Mocis marcida

8745    Mocis texana

8746    Mocis dissiverans

8747    Celiptera frustulum

8749    Ptichodis vinculum

8750    Ptichodis herbarum

8751    Ptichodis bistrigata

8752    Ptichodis pacalis

8756    Argyrostrotis contempta                     (it is possible this name and erasa both apply to the same species, but we are uncertain of this)

8759    Argyrostrotis flavistriaria (=carolina)

8760    Argyrostrotis sylvarum

8763    Argyrostrotis deleta                             (reported as “erasa” in NAJLB Vol. I)

8762    Argyrostrotis quadrifilaris

8764    Argyrostrotis anilis

8765    Doryodes bistrialis                               Images of Doryodes that occur in salt marsh

            Doryodes near bistrialis                      (as hypothesized by Kons)

NOTE: Subsequent to Vol. I HLK has hypothesized records reported under “bistriaris” include two species.  “Bistriaris” is from salt marsh on Highway 361, while “near bistrialis” is from turkey oak scrub and herb bog at the other localities reported.

8767    Doryodes spadaria

            Doryodes sp. nr. tenuistriga

8769    Spiloloma lunilinea

8770    Catocala innubens

8771    Catocala piatrix

8772    Catocala consors

8773    Catocala epione

8774    Catocala muliercula

8786    Catocala sappho

8787    Catocala agrippina

8789    Catocala ulalume                              [Examined, col. Jeff Slotten]

8791    Catocala insolabilis

8793    Catocala maestosa

8794    Catocala lacrymosa

8798    Catocala neogama

8801    Catocala ilia

8801.1 Catocala umbrosa

8832    Catocala cara

            Catocala carissima Hulst

NOTE: Cara and carissima were treated as synonyms in Vol. I, but our molecular phylogenetic analysis suggests they are separate species.  All of the Florida specimens we have sequenced thus far are carissima, but we have some Florida material that we have not yet had sequenced that is a good match to the cara phenotype.  Possible cara specimens have been recorded from SW 20th Ave. and the A.E.I., while carissima is recorded from all of the localities and flight season intervals reported for cara in NAJLB Vol. I.

8835    Catocala delilah

8844    Catocala amestris

8845    Catocala messalina

8847    Catocala gracilis

8848    Catocala louiseae

            Catocala sp. nr. louiseae                    (either a distinct species or a form of andromedae, as hypothesized by Kons & Borth)

8849    Catocala andromedae

8851    Catocala coccinata

            Catocala sinuosa Grote

Note:  We have recently conducted a molecular phylogenetic analysis providing unequivocal evidence that Catocala sinuosa is a valid species rather than a synonym of C. coccinata, as had previously been believed.  C. sinuosa is recorded from all of the localities and flight season intervals reported for coccinata in Kons and Borth (2006).  C. coccinata is recorded from 11 and 15 May from three specimens from the Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve in Liberty County.  Both species occur in sympatry at this site.

8855    Catocala miranda

8856    Catocala orba

8857    Catocala ultronia

8858    Catocala sp. nr. crataegi                    

Note:  This species was reported as crataegi in Kons and Borth (2006).  However, our molecular evidence suggests there are three species going under this name; the one that occurs in Florida is not the true crataegi. 

8858.1 Catocala pretiosa

8860    Catocala lincolnana

8863    Catocala mira

8864    Catocala grynea

8864    Catocala sp. nr. grynea                                 

Note:  Our molecular data suggests there are two species going under the name grynea that occur in sympatry in both Florida and Wisconsin.  They cannot be separated from external features to our knowledge.

            Catocala charlottae Brou                   

Note:  We have recently conducted a molecular phylogenetic analysis providing unequivocal evidence that C. charlottae and WI C. praeclara phenotypes are separate species, and while closely related, they are not sister species.  Both names have been reported from Florida for the same species; C. charlottae is a correct name for the species that occurs at low elevations in the Gulf States.  While C. charlottae material from Florida and Louisiana differs in pattern from northern C. praeclara, we recently had some material sequenced from the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky which resembles northern praeclara in pattern but matches FL/LA charlottae in COI sequences.  Unfortunately, north of the southeast coastal plain the two species may be hard to tell apart from external features.  This creates a nomenclatural dilemma with respect to the name praeclara.  The holotype of C. praeclara is from New York.  If it was from low elevations near the coast it could be the same species that occurs on the southeast coastal plain plus at least as far north as the Cumberland Mountains; this would mean charlottae is a synonym of praeclara and praeclara is not the correct name for the species that occurs in Wisconsin.  If it was from the interior of the state it is probably the same as the species we had sequenced from Wisconsin.

8869    Catocala alabamae

8872    Catocala clintoni

8873    Catocala similis

8874    Catocala minuta

8875    Catocala grisatra

8876    Catocala micronympha

8877    Catocala connubialis

8878    Catocala amica sp. 1

8878    Catocala amica sp. 2

Note:  There are possibly two species going under the name amica in Florida.  “Amica species 2” is a highly variable species recorded from all of the localities and flight intervals reported for amica in Kons and Borth (2006).  “Amica species 1” is a much less variable species that is widespread in much of eastern North America, but in Florida we have only found a few specimens in the central panhandle. 

            Catocala lineella complex species 1                       (as hypothesized by Kons)

            Catocala lineella complex species 2                       (as hypothesized by Kons)

            Catocala lineella complex species 3                       (as hypothesized by Kons)

Note:  Our molecular phylogenetic analysis indicates there are multiple species going under the name lineella.  The most common species in FL, C. lineella complex species 1, is recorded from all of the localities and flight season intervals reported for C. lineella in Kons and Borth (2006).  This species is diagnosable from wing pattern and has multiple correlating molecular characters unique to the amica/lineella/jair complex.  It is not clear if there are one or two additional lineella species.  C. lineella species 2 is widespread throughout eastern North America and in northern Florida, but it is usually much less common than lineella species 1 in Florida and Texas.  C. lineella species 3 may or may not be separate from species 2 (there are minor molecular differences), and if it is different some specimens may not be distinguishable from lineella species 2 from pattern.  This “species” occurs in the Gulf States in sympatry with lineella species 1 and species 2, but is the least common of the lineella complex species.  “Catocala lineella complex species 4” was included on previous versions of this checklist but we have deleted it.  There is a rare phenotype for which the first specimen we had sequenced had a unique COI barcode from all other specimens in the amica/lineella/jair complex.  However, this was an incomplete sequence and the results appear to have been annomalus.  Additional specimens closely resembling this phenotype have sequences that match amica species 2.

8879    Catocala jair

Note:  Molecular data suggests there are probably two species of C. jair, that occur in sympatry in both Florida and Texas.  There are no external morphological differences corresponding to the molecular differences, but we have not yet studied the genitalia. 

Euteliinae                                                       8                                             

8955    Marathyssa inficita

8956    Marathyssa basalis

8957    Paectes oculatrix

8959    Paectes pygmaea

8962    Paectes abrostoloides

            Paectes sp.                                         (there are at least two similar species, possibly more)

            Paectes sp.

8968    Eutelia pulcherrima

Sarrothripinae                                               9         

8102    Afrida ydatodes

8969    Baileya doubledayi

8970    Baileya ophthalmica

8971    Baileya dormitans

8972    Baileya levitans

            Baileya ellessyoo Brou

8974    Characoma nilotica

8975    Nycteola frigidana

            Nycteola metaspilella (Wlk.)            [NEW ADDITION]

Nolinae                                                           11

8983    Meganola miniscula

Meganola nr. miniscula                    [NEW ADDITION: molecular evidence indicates the summer/fall forms are a separate species, as hypothesized by Kons]

8983.1 Meganola phylla

            Meganola sp. nr. phylla                       (as hypothesized by Kons, doubtfully placed in genus Meganola)

8983.2 Meganola spodia

8989     Nola pustulata                                   [NEW ADDITION]

            Nola sp. nr. pustulata

8991    Nola cereella

8992    Nola triquetrana

8996    Nola clethrae

            Nola species                                       (reported incorrectly as “lagunculariae” in Volume I)

Arctiinae                                                        60

Lithosiini                                                        17

8045    Crambidia lithosioides

8045.1 Crambidia pallida

            Crambidia species near pallida (as hypothesized by Kons, but possibly the same as Kimball’s (1965) “906,1”)

NOTE:  Subsequent to NAJLB Vol. I HLK has decided records reported under “pallida” represent two distinct species.  Crambidia near pallida has been recorded from all of the localities and times of year reported for pallida in Vol. I.  Crambidia pallida has been recorded from the panhandle localities of Aspalaga Road, A.N.F. Road 111, Hickory Branch, Revell Branch, and the Blackwater River site.  Series of both species have been collected in sympatry with no intermediates in Liberty County.  There may also be a third “pallida” species in the Appalachians (see James Adams’ web site)

            Crambidia sp.

8052    Crambidia pura complex

8060    Cisthene unifascia

8066    Cisthene tenuifascia

8067    Cisthene plumbea

8071    Cisthene subjecta

8072    Cisthene packardii

            Cisthene sp. nr. packardii                   (as hypothesized by Kons)

8089    Hypoprepia miniata

8090    Hypoprepia fucosa

8098    Clemensia albata

8099    Pagara simplex

8101    Neoplynes eudora

8104    Comachara cadburyi

Arctiini                                                           35                                           

8105    Utetheisa ornatrix

8106    Utetheisa bella

8107    Haploa clymene

8108    Haploa colona                                     [Examined in FSCA]

8114    Virbia laeta     

8818    Virbia opella

            Virbia sp. 1                                         [NEW ADDITION: a widespread FL species that resembles opella]

            Virbia sp. 2                                         [NEW ADDITION: locally common in panhandle bogs, resembles opella]

8121    Virbia aurantiaca

8122    Virbia rubicundaria

8123    Virbia ferruginosa complex sp. 1        [possibly an undescribed species that has gone under the name ferruginosa in FL]

Note:  Virbia species were formerly placed in the genus Holomelina.  They are moved to Virbia based on a phylogenetic analysis by Zaspel and Weller (2006).

8129    Pyrrharctia isabella

8130    Seirarctia echo

8131    Estigmene acrea

8134    Spilosoma congrua

8136    Spilosoma dubia

8137    Spilosoma virginica

8140    Hyphantria cunea

8141    Euerythra phasma

8146    Ecpantheria scribbonia

8169    Apantesis phalerata

8171    Apantesis nais

8191    Grammia placentia

8194    Grammia phyllira

8196    Grammia parthenice

8197    Grammia virgo

8198    Grammia doris

8203    Halysidota tessellaris

8204    Halysidota harrisii?

            Halysidota sp.

8217    Leucanopsis longa

8228    Cycnia inopinatus

8230    Cycnia species near tenera                (Note: we do not know how the name “pudens” applies; reported as “tenera” in Vol. I), Images

8238    Euchaetes egle

8255    Pygarctia abdominalis

Ctenuchini                                                     8

8266    Dahana atripennis

8267    Cisseps fulvicollis

8270    Lymire edwardsii

8271    Eucereon carolina

8280    Cosmosoma myodora

8281    Didasys belae                                     Images

8282    Syntomeida ipomoeae

8284    Syntomeida epilais

Lymantriinae                                                 13

8292    Dasychira tephra

8296    Dasychira basiflava                           

8298    Dasychira meridionalis                      

            Dasychira species                            [NEW ADDITION: The name pallerosa may apply, or perhaps this is a new species]

Note:  The preceding three species are sympatric in Santa Rosa County and have markedly different COI sequences.  We had previously considered it likely that  meridionalis and basiflava might all be one species, but our recent molecular evidence strongly argues against this hypothesis, although at this point we probably cannot reliably separate all specimens from morphology.  Thus far we have meridionalis sequences from Alachua and Santa Rosa Counties (n=2), basiflava sequences from Santa Rosa County (n=2), and one sequence of a third species from Santa Rosa County.  The third species, for which we have only one FL specimen, most closely resembles the pallerosa phenotype in Ferguson's (1978) fascicle.

8297    Dasychira matheri                              [Possibly not a distinct species from basiflava; no examples of this phenotype have been sequenced]

8299    Dasychira atrivenosa

8301    Dasychira leucophaea

8303    Dasychira dominickaria

8307    Dasychira manto

8313    Orgyia detrita

8314    Orgyia definita                                                [Examined, specimen provided to Kons by John Foltz]

8316    Orgyia leucostigma

8318    Lymantria dispar                                 [Examined]

Bagisarinae                                                   3

9168    Bagisara repanda

9169    Bagisara rectifascia

            Bagisara brouana Fgn.

Eustrotinae                                                    22

9003    Tripudia quadrifera

9008    Tripudia sp. near inquaesita                (reported as “Tripudia sp.” in Vol. I)

9009    Tripudia flavofasciata

9025    Oruza albocostaliata

9030    Ozarba aeria

9033    Ozarba nebula

9035    Hyperstrotia nana

            Hyperstrotia species

9037    Hyperstrotia pervertens

9038    Hyperstrotia villificans

9039    Hyperstrotia flaviguttata

9040    Hyperstrotia secta

9044    Thioptera nigrofimbria

9047    Lithacodia muscosula

9051    Lithacodia musta

9054    Lithacodia indeterminata

            Undet. Eustrotinae                              (probably a new species)

9060    Argillophora furcilla                             Images

9061    Cerma cora

9062    Cerma cerintha

9069    Amyna bellula

9070    Amyna octo

Condicinae                                                    15

9690    Condica videns

9693    Condica mobilis

9696    Condica vecors

9698    Condica concisa

9699    Condica sutor

9700    Condica cervina

9713    Condica cupentia

9714    Condica confederata

9720    Ogdoconta cinereola

            Ogdoconta sp. nr. tacna                     (as hypothesized by Kons)

9056    Homophoberia cristata                       Images

9057    Homophoberia apicosa

9066    Leuconycta lepidula

9067    Diastema tigris

9661    Crambodes talidiformis

Plusiinae                                                        15

9021    Exyra fax                                            Exyra Images

9023    Exyra ridingsii

9024    Exyra semicroecia

8884    Mouralia tinctoides

8885    Argyrogramma verruca

8886    Enigmogramma basigera

8887    Trichoplusia ni

8889    Ctenoplusia oxygramma

8890    Pseudoplusia includens

            Pseudoplusia? sp.                            (Not counted, probably just a deformed P. includens)

8891    Autoplusia egena                              [Examined]

8894    Notoplusia illustrata                         [NEW ADDITION]

8895    Rachiplusia ou

8898    Allagrapha aerea

8907    Megalographa biloba

Acontiinae                                                     18

9076    Eumicremma minima

9078    Eumestleta recta

9080    Proroblemma testa

9083    Tarachidia parvula

9085    Tarachidia semiflava

9090    Tarachidia candefacta

9095    Tarachidia erastrioides

            Fruva species                                     (possibly a new species distinct from fasciatella, a western species reported from FL in the literature)      

9115    Ponometia exigua

9122    Spragueia dama

9124    Spragueia perstructana

9126    Spragueia onagrus

9127    Spragueia leo

9128    Spragueia jaguaralis

9131    Spragueia apicalis

9136    Acontia aprica

9145    Acontia terminimaculata complex species 1              Images

9145    Acontia terminimaculata complex species 2

Note: HLK has hypothesized there are two species going under the name terminimaculata subsequent to Kons and Borth (2006).  The potentially salt marsh dependent species we reported from Highway 361 is species 1.  This species has been recorded from all of the flight season intervals reported for terminimaculata in Kons and Borth (2006).  The record from the American Entomological Institute Property is species 2, which has been recorded from early May.

Amphipyrinae                                                3

9618    Phosphila turbulenta

9619    Phosphila miselioides

9638    Amphipyra pyramidoides

Stiriinae                                                          4

9766    Cirrhophanus triangulifer

9781    Basilodes pepita

9785    Stiria rugifrons                                              [Examined]

            Undetermined Species                     [Examined: a high quality digital image provided by the Texas Lepidoptera Survey]

Note: The above is based on a Texas Lepidoptera Survey specimen from Crestview, and our placement of this species in Stiriinae is just a guess.  This species is almost certainly new.

Eriopinae                                                       4

9630    Callopistria floridensis

9631    Callopistria mollissima

9632    Callopistria granitosa

9633    Callopistria cordata

Psaphidinae                                                   8

9725    Azenia obtusa

10007  Feralia major

10012  Psaphida electilis

10013  Psaphida grandis

10014  Psaphida rolandi

10016  Psaphida styracis

10019  Psaphida resumens

10021  Copivaleria grotei

Heliothinae                                                    35

11055  Derrima stellata

11065  Rhodoecia aurantiago

11068  Helicoverpa zea

11070  Heliothis subflexus

11071  Heliothis virescens

11073  Heliothis turbatus                                Images of H. turbatus and H. lupatus

11073.1           Heliothis lupatus                      (hypothesized to be a valid species by Kons, for the reasons given in NAJLB Volume I)

11098  Schinia scissa                                   [FL specimen illustrated in Hardwick (1996), Holotype from FL]

11099  Schinia scissoides

            Schinia subspinosae Hardwick

11105  Schinia bina

11107  Schinia fulleri

11112  Schinia sordida

11113  Schinia petulans

11114  Schinia ar

11115  Schinia siren

11116  Schinia tuberculum

            Schinia sp. nr. tuberculum?

11117  Schinia lynx

11128  Schinia arcigera

11132  Schinia jaguarina

11135  Schinia rivulosa

11137  Schinia nubila

11140  Schinia saturata

11141  Schinia thoreaui

11147  Schinia gracilenta

11148  Schinia oleagina

11149  Schinia trifascia

11168  Schinia gaurae

11169  Schinia mitis

11173  Schinia sanguinea (=gloriosa and carminosa)

11177  Schinia nundina

11178  Schinia arefacta

11183  Schinia diffusa                                    [L to C]

11202  Schinia carolinensis

Agaristinae                                                    4

9299    Eudryas unio

9301    Eudryas grata

9309    Psychomorpha epimenis

9314    Alypia octomaculata

Pantheinae                                                     4

            Panthea sp. nr. furcilla

9184    Colocasia flavicornis

9189    Charadra deridens

9192    Raphia abrupta

Acronictinae                                                  34

9199    Acronicta rubricoma

9200    Acronicta americana

9203    Acronicta dactylina                             [L to C]

Note: the FL literature record of this species from Archbold is almost certainly an error, but we have collected this species in the northern panhandle (Gadsden County)

9208    Acronicta betulae

9211    Acronicta tritona

9219    Acronicta connecta

9225    Acronicta vinnula

9227    Acronicta laetifica

9229    Acronicta hasta

9235    Acronicta spinigera

9236    Acronicta morula

9237    Acronicta interrupta

9238    Acronicta lobeliae

9242    Acronicta exilis

            Acronicta sp. nr. ovata                        (as hypothesized by Kons)

9244    Acronicta modica

9245    Acronicta haesitata

9246    Acronicta clarescens

9248    Acronicta hamamelis

9251    Acronicta retardata

9254    Acronicta afflicta

9255    Acronicta brumosa

9257    Acronicta impleta

9259    Acronicta noctivaga

9264    Acronicta longa

9272    Acronicta oblinata

9274    Acronicta lanceolaria

            Acronicta sinescripta Fgn.                              Images

            Acronicta perblanda Fgn.                               Images

9280a  Simyra henrici cpx. sp. A                               Images

9281    Agriopodes fallax

9285    Polygrammate hebraeicum

9286    Harrisimemna trisignata

            Cryphia cyanympha Fgn.

Cucullinae                                                                  1

10192  Cucullia alfarata                                            [Examined]

Noctuinae                                                                  126

            New genus Quinter species 2 Quinter            Images                       

            Apameini sp.                                                   (a species associated with Arundinaria habitats: Images)

            Acrapex relicta Fgn.                                       Images

9425    Meropleon cosmion                                       

9449    Archanara oblonga

9463    Parapamea buffaloensis

9482    Papaipema speciosissima

9491    Papaipema stenocilis

9520    Achatodes zeae

9522    Iodopepla u-album

9523    Bellura gortynoides                                         [Page with Bellura Images]

9524    Bellura brehmei (there may be two FL species going under this name, and both might be different from another northern phenotype)

9525    Bellura obliqua (there may be three species going under this name, two of which occur in FL, including the one below)

            Bellura sp. nr. obliqua                                     (as hypothesized by Kons)

9526    Bellura densa

9545    Euplexia benesimilis

9556    Chytonix palliatricula

9557    Chytonix sensilis

9561    Dypterygia patina

9582    Nedra ramosula

9592    Properigea tapeta

9629    Fagitana littera

            Phuphena? sp.

9636    Acherdoa ferraria

9637    Magusa orbifera

9650    Anorthodes tarda

9662    Balsa malana

9663    Balsa tristrigella

9664    Balsa labecula

9665    Spodoptera exigua

9666    Spodoptera frugiperda

9669    Spodoptera ornithogalli

9670    Spodoptera latifascia

9671    Spodoptera dolichos

9672    Spodoptera eridania

9673    Spodoptera sunia

9675    Elaphria fuscimacula

9676    Elaphria nucicolora

9677    Elaphria agrotina

9678    Elaphria versicolor

9679    Elaphria chalcedonia

9680    Elaphria georgei

9681    Elaphria festivoides

Note: (Rings et al. (1992) suggest the FL penotype, plated in Kimball (1965), may be different from two species which occur in Ohio (one of these has since been described as cornutinis, which we have not recorded from Florida))

9682    Elaphria exesa

9684    Elaphria grata

9687    Gonodes liquida

9688    Galgula partita

9689    Perigea xanthioides

9718    Emarginea percara

9815    Cosmia calami

9818    Amolita fessa

9819    Amolita obliqua

9821    Amolita roseola

            Lithophane new species                                 Images

            Lithophane sp.

9931    Pyreferra ceromatica?

9941    Sericaglaea signata

9942    Xystopepla rufago

9944    Metaxaglaea viatica                             

9945    Metaxaglaea semitaria                                                         [Examined in Texas Lepidoptera Survey collection (col. E. Knudson)]

9947    Epiglaea apiata                                              [Examined in Jeff Slotten collection]

9948    Chaetaglaea cerata complex                        (possibly a southern form of C. cerata complex species 1, or perhaps a third species)

9948    Chaetaglaea cerata cpx. sp. 2                        (as hypothesized by Kons, species 2 is what is illustrated as cerata in Rings et al. (1992))

9949    Chaetaglaea tremula

9950    Chaetaglaea sericea cpx. sp. 1                      (as hypothesized by Kons)

9950    Chaetaglaea sericea cpx. sp. 2                      (as hypothesized by Kons)

            Chaetaglaea species  (Reported incorrectly C. fergusoni in Kons & Borth (2006); HLK now thinks this may be a different undescribed species)

9957    Agrochola bicolorago

            Agrochola sp. nr. bicolorago                           (as hypothesized by Kons)

            Undet. Xylenini                                                (possibly Sutyna privata, or a new species near privata)

10154  Lepipolys perscripta                                    [Examined in pro tem material donated to FSCA]

10264  Trichoclea vindemialis

10317  Anepia capsularis                                         [Illustrated from Quincy in Kimball (1965)]

10403  Lacinipolia erecta                                         [Examined in pro tem material donated to FSCA]

10411  Lacinipolia laudabilis

10413  Lacinipolia explicata

10434  Faronta rubripennis

10438  Pseudaletia unipuncta

10439  Leucania extincta

10440  Leucania linita

10445  Leucania linda

10454  Leucania latiuscula

            Leucania subpunctata (Harv.)

10455  Leucania scirpicola

10456  Leucania adjuta

10457  Leucania infatuans                                       [NEW ADDITION]

10458  Leucania humidicola

10460  Leucania calidior                                             Images

10463  Leucania pilipalpis

10491  Orthosia alurina

10495  Orthosia hibisci

10502  Himella intractata

10517  Egira alternans

            Egira sp. nr. alternans                                     (we are unsure if this is a distinct species from E. alternans), Images

10518  Achatia distincta

10519  Morrisonia mucens

10521  Morrisonia confusa

            Morrisonia new species

10563  Protorthodes oviduca

10567  Ulolonche culea

10585  Orthodes crenulata

10289  Orthodes goodelli

10627  Tricholita signata

10640  Xanthopastis timais

10651  Agrotis venerabilis

10661  Agrotis maldefida

10663  Agrotis ipsilon

10664  Agrotis subterranea

            Agrotis sp.

10666  Trichosilia manifesta

10680  Trichosilia geniculata                          [Lafontaine (2004) treated peninsular FL specimens as a distinct species, Feltia  floridensis Laf.]

10694  Eucoptocnemis fimbriaris

10696  Eucoptocnemis dapsilis

10810  Euxoa violaris                                   [Examined in the NMNH]

10901  Euagrotis lubricans complex species 1          (as hypothesized by Kons)     [This species is wetland dependent; it occurs in hydric forest & bog]

            Euagrotis lubricans complex species 2          (as hypothesized by Kons)     [This is a scrub dependent species not endemic to FL]                

10903  Euagrotis illapsa

            Euagrotis new sp nr. illapsa                [As hypothesized by Kons]     [This is a scrub dependent species possibly endemic to peninsular FL] Image

Note:  Kons has changed his species concepts for Euagrotis subsequent to Kons and Borth (2006).  Records reported as "species near lubricans" are now designated as "lubricans complex species 1" but all of these records refer to what Kons still considers to be one species.  Records reported as "species near illapsa" in Kons and Borth (2006) included what Kons now considers to be two species.  "Euagrotis lubricans complex species 2" is recorded from all of the localities and flight season intervals reported for "species near illapsa" in Kons and Borth (2006), whereas "species near illapsa" is recorded from these same flight intervals but only the peninsular Florida localities.  Lafontaine (2003) considered what Kons calls lubricans complex species 1 and species 2 to be one species, but Kons cannot agree because there are consistent pattern differences corresponding to habitat differences and the ranges overlap with no intermediate specimens.   Where scrub habitats and wetlands occur in close proximity in Liberty County the two species may be collected together, but at many localities only one or the other occurs.  Kons does not know which of these species matches the lubricans holotype.  Lafontaine (2003) considered what Kons calls "species near illapsa" to be a form of illapsa, but Kons cannot agree due to the marked pattern differences corresponding to habitat differences.  Again, the ranges of illapsa and near illapsa overlap, but Kons has seen no intermediates.  Euagrotis sullivani Lafontaine closely resembles Euagrotis lubricans complex species 1, but so far none of the FL specimens Kons has dissected are sullivani.  We have recorded E. sullivani from Angelina County, Texas, and it may show up in Florida eventually.

10907  Euagrotis simplicia

10911  Anicla infecta

10915  Peridroma saucia

            Noctua pronuba

10942.1           Xestia dolosa

10967  Xestia elimiata                                   [Examined, col. Jeff Slotten]

10969  Xestia dilucida

10998  Choephora fungorum (there may be two species going under this name, but only one occurs in Florida)

 

Additional Non Macrolepidoptera Families Included in NAJLB Vol. I

 

ATTEVIDAE                                                  1

2401    Atteva punctella

 

LACTURIDAE                                               2

2405    Lactura pupula

2407    Lactura subfervens

 

URODIDAE                                                    1

2415    Urodus parvula

 

YPONOMEUTIDAE                                      1

2420    Yponomeuta multipunctella

 

COSSIDAE                                                    6

2659    Inguromorpha basalis

2668    Givira anna

2671    Givira francesa

            Givira species                                     [NEW ADDITION]

2674    Cossula magnifica

2693    Prionoxystus robiniae

 

ZYGAENOIDEA                                            28

ZYGAENIDAE                                               3

4624    Harrisina americana

            Neoprocris floridana Tarmann

4629    Acoloithus falsarius

MEGALOPYGIDAE                                      4

4642    Lagoa pyxidifera

4644    Lagoa crispata

4647    Megalopyge operculalis

4650    Norape ovina

LIMACODIDAE                                             20

4652    Tortricidia testacea

4653    Tortricidia pallida

4655    Slossonella tenebrosa

4657    Heterogenea shurtleffi

4663    Lithacodes fiskeanus                          (reported as “gracea” in NAJLB Vol. I)

4665    Lithacodes fasciola

4667    Apoda y-inversum

4668    Apoda rectilinea

            Apoda new species near rectilinea     (also on James Adams’ web site)       [NEW ADDITION]

4669    Apoda biguttata

4671    Prolimacodes badia

4675    Isochaetes beutenmuelleri

4677    Phobetron pithecium

4679    Natada nasoni

4681    Isa textula

4685    Adoneta spinuloides

4691    Monoleuca semifascia

4697    Euclea delphini

4699    Parasa indetermina

4700    Sibine stimulea

EPIPYROPIDAE                                            1         

4701    Fulgoraecia exigua

 

THYRIDIDAE                                                 2

6077    Thyris sepulchralis

6085    Meskeana dyspteraria                                    (Accidentally omitted from NAJLB Vol. I)

 

Literature Records of Probable, Possible, or Unknown Authenticity for Northern Florida

 

The following species, reported in the literature from northern Florida, are species which we think are probable or possible for occurring in northern Florida, or species we know too little about to hypothesize if north Florida records are reasonable.  A discussion of these species is included in Table 3 in NAJLB Volume 1.   The literature records come primarily from Kimball (1965) and Heppner (2003), and the references cited in these publications.  Some additional literature records subsequent to Heppner (2003) are from Lafontaine (2004).

 

Species names in violet were reported from northern FL in recent revisions (Lafontaine (1987), Poole (1995), or Lafontaine (2004)) and thus the determinations are known to be highly authoritative.

 

MACROLEPIDOPTERA                            91

GEOMETRIDAE                                            21

6258    Alsophila pometaria

6332    Semiothis punctolineata

6437    Hypomecis luridola

6358    Semiothisa ordinata

6487    Tornos abjectarius

            Melanolophia imperfectaria

6753    Pero honestaria

6797    Ennomos magnaria

6829    Metarranthis lateritiaria

6830    Metaranthis pilosaria

6868    Caripeta latiorata

6880    Destutia flumenata

6892    Lambdina pellucidaria

7048    Nemoria mimosaria

7104    Idaea microphysa

7107    Idaea pervertipennis

7112    Idaea productata

7133    Pleuroprucha asthenaria

7146    Haematopis grataria

7154    Scopula plantagenaria

7292    Hydria prunivorata

RHOPALOCERA                                          7

3977    Pholisora cattullus

4096    Amblyscirtes hegon

4105    Amblyscirtes vialis

4207    Falcapica midea

4325    Callophrys irus

4450    Speyeria cybele

4568.2 Enodia creola

Note: The literature records for Gainesville are very doubtful, but this species could occur in the panhandle, although we have not uncovered it with extensive bait trapping in Jackson, Gadsden, and Liberty Counties.

SPHINGIDAE                                                 9

7802    Sphinx chersis

7809    Sphinx kalmiae

7828    Pachysphinx modesta

7847    Aellopos tantalus

7849    Aellopos titan

7855    Hemaris diffinis

7864    Eumorpha vitis

7866    Eumorpha labruscae

7867    Cautethia grotei

NOCTUIDAE                                                 54

8046    Crambidia uniformis

8199    Grammia arge

8227    Paraeuchaetes insulata

8229    Cycnia pudens

8598    Melipotis perpindicularis

8605    Melipotis contorta

8614    Bulia deducta

8575    Azeta repugnalis

8719    Euparthenos nubilis

            Catocala atocala Brou

8792    Catocala vidua

8790    Catocala dejecta

8796    Catocala nebulosa

8834    Catocala amatrix

8973    Baileya australis

8960    Paectes bursurae

8965    Paectes nubifera

8982    Collomena filifera

9010    Tripudia versuta

9049    Maliattha synochitis

9053    Pseudostrotia carneola

9088    Tarachidia virginalis

9125    Spragueia guttata

9132    Spragueia margana

9146    Acontia delecta

9748    Plagiomimicus spumosum

11072  Heliothis phloxiphagus

11120  Schinia parmeliana

11164  Schinia florida

11174  Schinia lucens

10099  Oncocnemis saundersiana

10200  Cucullia asteroides

9441    Chortodes enervata

9444    Franclemontia interrogans

9465    Papaipema duovata

9466    Papaipema cataphracta

9469    Papaipema polymniae

9493    Papaipema appassionata                               Images

9899    Lithophane lemmeri

9929    Pyreferra hesperidago

9952    Eucirroedia pampina

10065  Homohadena infixa

10171  Pseudacontia louisa

10262  Trichoclea ruisa

10438.1           Pseudaletia sequax

10641  Agrotis vetusta

10648  Agrotis gladiaria

10670  Feltia jaculifera

10676  Feltia heriles

10732  Euxoa inconcinna

10869  Loxagrotis grotei

            Mesembagrotis reliqua Laf. & Schweitzer

10993  Hemipachnobia subporphyrea

11029  Abagrotis alternata

 

Literature Records for Northern Florida of Doubtful Authenticity

 

The following species are in our judgment likely reported from northern Florida in error, due to either misdeterminations or incorrect label data on correctly determined specimens.  A discussion of why we doubt these records is provided in Table 3 in NAJLB Volume I.  A source of many dubious records in Kimball (1965) (and presumably a second reporting of many of these species in Heppner (2003), although Heppner did not give sources of records like Kimball did) is a collector who collected both in Cassadaga, Florida and New York.  We suspect a number of the Cassadaga records are much more likely to be from New York than Florida.  Some other Cassadaga records are likely to be of material from southern Florida, and there are even some Cassadaga reports of western species that probably do not range east of central Texas (Schinia roseitincta is an example).  Ferguson (1978) previously questioned whether some material labeled from this locality was correctly labeled.  We consider species reported from northern Florida soley based on Cassadaga records to be doubtful at best, even if the specimens are correctly identified.

 

MACROLEPIDOPTERA                            129

EPIPLEMIDAE                                               1

7650    Callizzia amorata

GEOMETRIDAE                                            24

6263    Heliomata infulata

6352    Semiothisa granitata

6386    Semiothisa ocellinata

6570    Aethalura intertexta

6678    Cabera variolaria

      Thysanopyga proditata

6725    Euchlaena muzaria

6804    Petrophora subaequaria

6806    Tacparia atropunctata

6807    Tacparia detersata

6812    Homochlodes fritillaria

6863    Caripeta divisata

6894    Lambdina fervidaria

6964    Tetracis cachexiata

7058    Synchlora aerata

7070    Eueana niveociliaria

7153    Scopula apparitaria

7169    Scopula inductata

7180    Leptostales ferruminaria

7286    Triphosa affirmata

7290    Coryphista meadii

7299    Pterocypha floridata

7390    Xanthorhoe lacustrata

7635    Acasis viridata

RHOPALOCERA                                          14

3868    Proteides mercurius

3954    Erynnis martialis

3959    Erynnis baptisiae

4027    Hesperia metea

4101    Amblyscirtes reversa

4107    Amblyscirtes belli

4190    Appias drusilla

4281    Satyrium edwardsii

4251    Lycaena phlaeas

4256    Hyllolycaena hyllus

4358    Hemiargus thomasi

4478    Anthanassa frisia

4550    Marpesia petreus

4553    Anaea troglodyta

SPHINGIDAE                                                 2

7772    Cocytius antaeus

7776    Manduca quinquemaculata

NOTODONTIDAE                                         3

7895    Clostera albosigma

7965    Rifargia bichorda

7968    Litodonta hydromeli

NOCTUIDAE                                                 85

8061    Cisthene kentuckiensis

8124    Virbia immaculata

8142    Euerythra trimaculata

8202    Halysidota cinctipes

8254    Pygarctia spraguei

8256    Pygarctia eglenensis

8302    Dasychira obliquata

8304    Dasychira plagiata

8330    Idia scobialis

8341    Zanclognatha theralis

8345    Zanclognatha laevigata

8348    Zanclognatha pedipilalis

8352    Zanclognatha jacchusalis

8374    Bleptina minimalis

8380    Renia nemoralis

8429    Dyspyralis noloides

8353    Hypena sordidula

8461    Hypena humuli

8466    Tathorhynchus exsiccatus

8517    Palpidia pallidior

8659    Heteranassa mima

8679    Matiagramma pulverilinea

8684    Zale exhausta (the Quincy specimen illustrated in Kimball (1965) is quite different from what is determined with this name in the NMNH)

8695    Zale undularis

8700    Zale squamularis

8702    Zale submediana (HLK thinks there are at least three species going under this name)

8703    Zale helata

8704    Zale duplicata  (HLK thinks there may be two species going under this name)

8731    Euclidia cuspidea

8738    Caenurgina crassisucula

8841    Catocala abbreviatella

8843    Catocala whitneyi

8858    Catocala crataegi

8865    Catocala praeclara                 [Both praeclara and charlottae  have been reported for the same species in FL]

8897    Diachrysia balluca

8924    Anagrapha falcifera

8990    Nola cilicoides

8995    Nola ovilla

9046    Lithacodia bellicula

9284    Anterastria teratophora

9712    Draudtia morsa

9724    Ogdoconta tacna

9065    Leuconycta diptheroides

9640    Amphipyra glabella

9077    Eumestleta cinnamomea

9754    Plagiomimicus pityochromus

Note:  While there was a record shown in Poole’s (1995) revision, the dot on Poole’s map could correspond to the Cassadaga record reported in Kimball (1965).

11063  Pyrrhia adela

11092  Schinia roseitincta

11104  Schinia spinosae (Hardwick treated the FL phenotype as a separate species, subspinosae)

11110  Schinia septentrionalis

11212  Melaporphyria immortua

9205    Acronicta lepusculina

9212    Acronicta grisea

9250    Acronicta inclara

9241    Acronicta fragilis

9266    Acronicta lithospila

9316    Alypia wittffeldi

9332    Apamea vulgaris

9341    Apamea vultuosa

9367    Apamea dubitans

9406    Oligia fractilinea

9429    Lemmeria digitalis

9472    Papaipema harrisii

9560    Dypterigea rozmani

9887    Lithophane bethunei

9910    Lithophane antennata

10032  Neogalea sunia

10059  Homohadena badistriga

10223  Discestra trifolii

10257  Trichochlea florida

10304  Trichordestra legitima

10368  Lacinipolia meditata

10397  Lacinipolia renigera

10444  Leucania phragmatidicola

10461  Leucania ursula

10587  Orthodes cynica

10674  Feltia subgothica

10676  Feltia heriles

10731  Euxoa auxiliaris

10805  Euxoa tessellata

10908  Euagrotis digna

10929  Erois occulta

10942  Xestia c-nigrum

10950  Xestia bicarnea

10955  Xestia badinodis

 

 

 

 

Synonyms

 

The following names have been reported from Florida in the literature, but we do not include them on our list because we consider them to be synonyms of other species on our list.  The following list does not include numerous subspecies names that we consider to be synonyms of the nominate species, although some of the names on the following list have been treated as subspecies by some authors and as species by others..

 

MACROLEPIDOPTERA                                                       25

GEOMETRIDAE                                                                    5

6254    Eudeilinea luteifera (=herminiata)

6732    Euchlaena deplanaria (HLK has seen material of all of FL’s Euchlaena species det. with this name, the one in Kimball (1965) is pectinaria)

6735    Euchlaena deductaria (=pectinaria)

6744    Xanthotype attenuaria (=sospeta)

7138    Cyclophora benjamini (=myrtaria)

RHOPALOCERA                                                                  2

4332    Satyrium ontario (=favonius)

            Callophrys sweadneri (=gryneus)

APATELODIDAE                                                                  1

7666    Olceclostera indistincta (=angelica)

SATURNIIDAE                                                                      2

7720    Anisota peigleri (=senatoria)

7723.1 Anisota pellucida (=virginica)

SPHINGIDAE                                                                         2

            Lapara halicarniae (=coniferarum)

7817    Lapara bombycoides (=coniferarum)

NOCTUIDAE                                                                         13

8068    Cisthene striata (=plumbea)

8170    Apantesis vittata (=nais)

8755    Argyrostrotis herbicola (specimens HLK has examined under this name were a form of flavistriaria, but these specimens were in a collection with lots of misdeterminations, thus we are certain as to what phenotype this name applies)

8758    Argyrostrotis carolina (=flavistriaria)

8859    Catocala texarkana (=pretiosa)

11171  Schinia gloriosa (=sanguinea)

11173.1           Schinia carminosa (=sanguinea)

9240    Acronicta pruni (=clarescens)

9249    Acronicta increta (=inclara)

9253    Acronicta subochrea (=hamamelis)

9271    Acronicta arioch (=oblinata)

9310    Psychomorpha euryrhoda (=epeminis)

10450  Leucania icognita (=latiuscula, maybe)