Moths of North Carolina
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1 NC Records

Meropleon cinnamicolor Ferguson, 1982 - No Common Name

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Taxonomy
Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: NoctuidaeSubfamily: NoctuinaeTribe: ApameiniP3 Number: 932410.00 MONA Number: 9425.10
Comments: One of six species in this genus that occur in North America (Lafontaine and Schmidt, 2010), five of which have been recorded in North Carolina.
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Online Photographs: MPG, BugGuide, iNaturalist, Google, BAMONA, GBIF, BOLDTechnical Description, Adults: Ferguson (1982)                                                                                 
Adult Markings: A medium-large Noctuid. Body and forewings are colored bright reddish-cinnamon, with the wings lacking almost all markings except for a pale streak along the cubital vein and a series of dark points on the veins in the subterminal area (Ferguson, 1982). Hindwings are light brown. Meropleon cosmion is similar in appearance but has a conspicuous, white orbicular (Ferguson, 1982). In the Midwest, M. linae is also very similar but even more unicolorous, lacking the white streak found in cinnamicolor (Metlevski, 2005).
Adult Structural Features: Males have bipectinate. The male genitalia are distinctive, differing from cosmion in the shape of the uncus, saccus, and valves; two large spines and one small one are located in the vesica of the aedeagus (see Ferguson, 1982, for a description and illustrations).
Adult ID Requirements: Identifiable from good quality photos of unworn specimens.
Immatures and Development: Apparently undescribed, but the larvae are likely to be borers in some large species of marsh grass.
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution: Restricted to the southern half of the Outer Coastal Plain, where it probably occurs only in marshes in the Tidewater zone.
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Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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