Hodges # 9893
Caterpillar foods: sour cherry, birch, box-elder, chokecherry and oak (Lepidoptera of Wayne Co., OH)
This species is very similar to Lithophane lanei. Kyle Johnson says: “the wing angle can be misleading regarding the subreniform dark rectangle……you can see a jagged “tooth” project downward by over half the length of the rectangle in hemina; hemina also has a noticeably more “streaky” wing texture.”
Here’s a link to a page of L. hemina and L. lanei specimens I’ve found, with Kyle’s comments.
9/16/2012 Thanks to Hugh McGuinness for help with this ID. He gave me help on the difference between this, and L. petulca – the differences are pretty subtle. Hugh said: “The primary difference is the color of the costa: silvery in petulca, yellowish or reddish in hemina. My guess is this is hemina.”
9/16/2014 ID by Kyle Johnson
9/16/2014 ID by Kyle Johnson
10/9/2015 ID by Kyle Johnson
10/6/2015 ID by Kyle Johnson
10/4/2015 ID by Kyle Johnson
10/5/2015 ID by Kyle Johnson
10/6/2015 ID by Kyle Johnson
10/5/2015 ID by Kyle Johnson
