Wing span: 43mm
Flight time: May - July
Description. FW like titania, but with lines more contrasting, and some dark brown shading in st area and along inner margin (between pm and st lines); no basal dash. HW yellow-orange (paler than grynea, like praeclara and titania) with black bands. 30-40 mm. H 32:15. B & Mc 9: 17.
Similar species. See titania.
Range. Southwestern states. Recorded from Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida in our area.
Status. Rare and sporadic in the east. Season. Apparently early to mid-season.
Larval foodplants. Presumably hawthorns (Crataegus).
C. titania now a subspecies of C. alabamae.
Description. FW like grynea, but duller and with less contrast; lines obsolescent; little if any brown shading in st area and along inner margin; no basal dash. HW like grynea, with somewhat paler yellow-orange ground. A minor variant with somewhat more distinct FW lines is "distincta" Schwarz (this may be alabamae). 20-35 mm. H (not shown). B & Mc 8: 19; 9: 34.
Similar species. Usually regarded as a sub-species or variety of alabamae. Specimens referred to titania are usually smaller and plainer than alabamae, though intergrades occur. C. grynea and praeclara have far more prominent FW contrasts than either titania or alabamae.
Range. Mid-western states. Recorded from Pennsylvania (DFS), Illinois and Tennessee in our area.
Status. Very rare and sporadic, except at western edge of our area.
Larval food plants. Apparently hawthorns (Crataegus).
Notes. Moth rests head-down on tree trunks (Schwarz, 1916).
Data from Legion of Night by Theodore Sargent.
Record # | Date | Locale | State | Lat/Lon | Collected By | Count |
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272625 | 2020-07-14 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.016779 -93.616948 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
272623 | 2020-07-11 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.016779 -93.616948 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
272624 | 2020-07-08 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.016779 -93.616948 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
132126 | 2015-07-04 | Ames, Paul | Iowa | 42.02064 -93.623952 | Paul Martsching | 1 |
1247 | 2014-07-26 | Pleasant Creek State Recreation Area, Linn County | Iowa | 42.109952 -91.822641 | Jim Durbin | 1 |
109534 | 2014-07-26 | I-80 Rest Stop near Adair | Iowa | 41.497 -94.572 | Mark Brown | 1 |
110166 | 2014-07-26 | I-80 Rest Stop near Adair | Iowa | 41.497 -94.572 | Mark Brown | 1 |
128624 | 2014-07-26 | I-80 Rest Stop near Adair | Iowa | 41.497 -94.572 | Mark Brown | 1 |
18803 | 2003-07-26 | Wanatee County Park | Iowa | 42.0094 -91.56623 | Jim Durbin | 1 |
18804 | 2003-07-26 | Wanatee County Park | Iowa | 42.0094 -91.56623 | Jim Durbin | 1 |
18805 | 2003-07-26 | Wanatee County Park | Iowa | 42.0094 -91.56623 | Jim Durbin | 1 |
18806 | 2003-07-26 | Wanatee County Park | Iowa | 42.0094 -91.56623 | Jim Durbin | 1 |
18807 | 2003-05-15 | Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge | Iowa | 41.5678 -93.2675 | Keith Summerville | 1 |