Catocala lacrymosa

Catocala lacrymosa, the tearful underwing, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from Massachusetts and Connecticut south to Florida, west to Texas and eastern Oklahoma and north to Illinois and Michigan and into southern Ontario.

Catocala lacrymosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Catocala
Species:
C. lacrymosa
Binomial name
Catocala lacrymosa
Synonyms
  • Catabapta lacrymosa
  • Catocala evelina French, 1881
  • Catocala emilia H. Edwards, 1881
  • Catocala zelica French, 1881
  • Catocala paulina H. Edwards, 1880
  • Catocala albomarginata Cassino, 1917

The wingspan is 60–82 mm. Adults are on wing from July to September depending on the location. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on Carya species.

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Catocala lacrymosa Guenee 1852". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016.


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