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Apamea sordens finitima

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Common NameRustic Shoulder Knot, Pale-banded Quaker Seasonalitylate May-July IdentificationA medium-sized moth (3.5-3.7 cm. ws), FW grey sometimes bluish tinted, median area darker, red-brown. The reniform and orbicular spots pale, the reniform with some dark filling in the lower half. A short, sharp black basal dash, and the claviform a black loop extending out from the AM line. HW grey brown, darker toward the margin and on veins, and a discal crescent The male has two large hair pencils on the base of the abdomen, and there is a sharp, thick spine on the sacculus. Antennae simple; sexes similar.
Scientific Name Apamea sordens finitima Common Name Rustic Shoulder Knot, Pale-banded Quaker Habitat Open areas and edges. Seasonality late May-July Identification
A medium-sized moth (3.5-3.7 cm. ws), FW grey sometimes bluish tinted, median area darker, red-brown. The reniform and orbicular spots pale, the reniform with some dark filling in the lower half. A short, sharp black…
A medium-sized moth (3.5-3.7 cm. ws), FW grey sometimes bluish tinted, median area darker, red-brown. The reniform and orbicular spots pale, the reniform with some dark filling in the lower half. A short, sharp black basal dash, and the claviform a black loop extending out from the AM line. HW grey brown, darker toward the margin and on veins, and a discal crescent The male has two large hair pencils on the base of the abdomen, and there is a sharp, thick spine on the sacculus. Antennae simple; sexes similar.
Conservation Widespread and uncommon. Diet Info Wheat, wild rice, corn and timothy, other grasses and sedges. Range Holarctic; in NA from NFLD and NJ west to the Vancouver Island, north to AK and south through MT to ?

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"Species Details - Apamea sordens finitima, University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum." University of Alberta Museums Search Site, https://search.museums.ualberta.ca/g/2-6327. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

Authorship

Name Anweiler, G. G.
Role species page author
Date 2007

Specimen Information

There are 69 specimens of this Species.

69 results plotted on map in 25 markers.
Note: Only records with latitude and longitude coordinates are plotted on map.

UASM130049 - Apamea sordens finitima

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Place CollectedCanada: British Columbia, Summerland Collected ByGardiner, M. Date Collected1994-06-01/1994-06-11

UASM130050 - Apamea sordens finitima

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Place CollectedUnited States: Wyoming, Albany county Collected ByFerris, C. Date Collected2000-06-12/2000-06-13

UASM130051 - Apamea sordens finitima

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Place CollectedUnited States: Rhode Island, Bristol county, Bristol Collected ByClark, H. Date Collected1918-06-14

BIRD35211 - Apamea sordens finitima

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Place CollectedCanada: Alberta, Erskine Collected ByBird, C. D. Date Collected2011-06-04

BIRD35337 - Apamea sordens finitima

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Place CollectedCanada: Alberta, Erskine Collected ByBird, C. D. Date Collected2011-06-22

BIRD35338 - Apamea sordens finitima

University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum

Place CollectedCanada: Alberta, Erskine Collected ByBird, C. D. Date Collected2011-06-22

Adult Seasonal Distribution