Moths of North Carolina
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View PDFNotodontidae Members: Pheosia Members: 1 NC Records

Pheosia rimosa Packard, 1864 - Black-rimmed Prominent

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Taxonomy
Superfamily:
Noctuoidea		 Family:
Notodontidae		Subfamily:
Notodontinae		Tribe:
Notodontini		P3 Number:
930012		 MONA Number:
7922.00		 Other Common Name:
False-sphinx
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Covell (1984); 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:
County Map: Clicking on a county returns the records for the species in that county.
Pheosia rimosaAlamance 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: Our one recent record for this species comes from a ridgetop site. Bigtooth Aspen occurs at various sites within this county but are not known from the immediate vicinity of the collection site. Balsam Poplar (or more probably, Populus ×jackii -- see Weakley, 2015) is common along the New River, the North Fork of which is located downslope from this site, but several miles away.
Larval Host Plants: Larvae feed mainly on poplar but also on willows (Wagner, 2005). Miller et al. (2018) state that the preferred hosts are Bigtooth Aspen (Populus grandidentata), Trembling Aspen (P. tremuloides), and Balsam Poplar (B. balsamifera). In North Carolina, Balsam Poplar has been recorded along the New River. - View
Wikipedia
See also Habitat Account for General Poplar Forests
Status in North Carolina
Natural Heritage Program Status:
Natural Heritage Program Ranks: G5 SNR [S1?]
State Protection: Has no legal protection, although permits are required to collect it on state parks and other public lands.
Comments: We have a single record for this species in North Carolina, collected by J.B. Sullivan.