Moths of North Carolina
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Schinia sanguinea (Geyer, 1832) - Bleeding Flower Moth

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Taxonomy
Superfamily:
Noctuoidea		 Family:
Noctuidae		Subfamily:
Heliothinae		P3 Number:
932145		 MONA Number:
11173.00
Comments: One of 126 species in this genus that occur in North America (Lafontaine and Schmidt, 2010, 2011), the majority of which occur in the West; 25 have been recorded in North Carolina.
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Covell (1984; including gloriosa); Beadle and Leckie (2012)Online Resources: MPG, BugGuide, iNaturalist, Google, BAMONA, GBIF, BOLD                                                                                 
Adult ID Requirements: Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens.
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution: This species is widespread in the prairies west of the Mississippi River but like several other prairie species also has disjunct occurrences in the fire-maintained savannas and sandhills of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains.
County Map: Clicking on a county returns the records for the species in that county.
Schinia sanguineaAlamance Alexander Alleghany Anson Ashe Avery Beaufort Bertie Bladen Brunswick Buncombe Burke Cabarrus Caldwell Camden Carteret Caswell Catawba Chatham Cherokee Chowan Clay Cleveland Columbus Craven Cumberland Currituck Dare Davidson Davie Duplin Durham Edgecombe Forsyth Franklin Gaston Gates Graham Granville Greene Guilford Halifax Harnett Haywood Henderson Hertford Hoke Hyde Iredell Jackson Johnston Jones Lee Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison Martin McDowell Mecklenburg Mitchell Montgomery Moore Nash New%20Hanover Northampton Onslow Orange Pamlico Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Person Pitt Polk Randolph Richmond Robeson Rockingham Rowan Rutherford Sampson Scotland Stanly Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania Tyrrell Union Vance Wake Warren Washington Watauga Wayne Wilkes Wilson Yadkin Yancey
Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

Click on graph to enlarge 		Image showing flight dates by month for High Mountains greater than 4,000 feet, Low Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain: adults.
Habitats and Life History
Habitats: All of our records come from the Coastal Plain and from the fire-maintained savannas and sandhills that support populations of its host species of Blazing-Stars.
Larval Host Plants: Larvae reportedly feed on blazing-star (Liatris), including Dense Blazing-star (L. spicata) and Northern Blazing-star (L. scariosa) (Wagner et al., 2011). In North Carolina, both of those species, however, are restricted to the mountains, while our records for Schinia sanguinea are all from the Coastal Plain. Other Liatris species that are more likely hosts in this range include Shaggy Blazing-star (L. pilosa), Sticky Blazing-star (L. resinosa), and Wand Blazing-star (L. virgata). - View
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See also Habitat Account for General Longleaf Woodlands
Status in North Carolina
Natural Heritage Program Status: W-PK
Natural Heritage Program Ranks: G4 S2S3
State Protection: Has no legal protection, although permits are required to collect it on state parks and other public lands.
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