Moths of North Carolina

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View PDF	Erebidae Members:	Hyperstrotia Members:	1 NC Records
Hyperstrotia villificans (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) - White-lined Graylet Moth

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Taxonomy

Superfamily: Noctuoidea	Family: Erebidae	Subfamily: Phytometrinae	P3 Number: 930727.00	MONA Number: 9038.00
Species Status: Hyperstrotia villificans was the name that was previously applied to most of the specimens of this complex that have been recorded in North Carolina. Lafontaine & Schmidt (2015), however, reported that villificans was actually a synonym of H. nana. That decision, however, was subsequently retracted by Schmidt et al. (2018), based on DNA analysis, but without providing any way to distinguish between the two species based on external features. We kept the name that we had been previously using but new information indicates that true villificans is a more northern species and that the form we have is what is currently recognized as nana. Consequently, we have now moved all of our records to that name, although it remains to be confirmed that villificans does not, in fact, occur in North Carolina.

Identification

Field Guide Descriptions: Covell (1984); Beadle and Leckie (2012)	Online Photographs: MPG, BugGuide, iNaturalist, Google, BAMONA, GBIF, BOLD
Adult ID Requirements: Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens.

Distribution in North Carolina


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Flight Dates: High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft. Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft. Piedmont (Pd) Coastal Plain (CP) Click on graph to enlarge

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Status in North Carolina

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State Protection: Has no legal protection, although permits are required to collect it on state parks and other public lands.

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