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Moths of North Carolina - Early Draft 1 Erebidae Cisthene subjecta Subject Lichen Moth 20 n=1 • • High Mt. • N 10 • u • • • m • b e 0 • • • r 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 • 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 NC counties: 22 • • Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec • o • • 20 • • f n=0 • = Sighting or Collection Low Mt. High counts of: • • in NC since 2001 F • = Not seen since 2001 l 10 31 - Carteret - 1996-07-21 • i 13 - Dare - 1993-09-14 g Status Rank h 12 - Columbus - 2013-09-28 0 NC US NC Global t 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 D Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec a 20 20 t n=8 n=191 e Pd CP s 10 10 0 0 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 15 5 25 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Three periods to each month: 1-10 / 11-20 / 21-31 FAMILY: Erebidae SUBFAMILY: Arctiinae TRIBE: Lithosiini TAXONOMIC_COMMENTS: One of twenty species in this genus that occur in North America, five of which have been recorded in North Carolina FIELD GUIDE DESCRIPTIONS: Covell (1984) ONLINE PHOTOS: MPG, Bugguide, BAMONA TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION, ADULTS: Mentioned by Forbes (1960) but not described in detail TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION, IMMATURE STAGES: (None) ID COMMENTS: Dark gray with a thin yellow line along the costa and another located above the inner margin; two pink to cherry red spots project downward from both of these lines in the postmedian area; unlike the similar but slightly larger Cisthene packardii, there is no patch of yellow located on the upper side of the line above the inner margin. DISTRIBUTION: Almost all of our records come from the Coastal Plain and eastern Piedmont; an old record from Wray (1967) comes from Brevard in the southern Mountains FLIGHT COMMENT: Has three distinct flights: spring, summer, and fall HABITAT: Strongly associated with dry-to-xeric Coastal Plain habitats, particularly maritime forests and scrub and Coastal Fringe Sandhills; occurs farther inland also in association with sandridges in the Coastal Plain and dry upland habitats in the eastern Piedmont. Only a very few records come from wet-to-mesic habitats, including bottomland hardwoods. FOOD: Like most Lithosiines, probably feeds on lichens, bark algae, and Cyanobacteria (Covell, 1984; Wagner, 2005) OBSERVATION_METHODS: Comes well but usually in small numbers to blacklights; none of our records come from bait NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM RANKS: G5 [S4] STATE PROTECTION: Has no legal protection, although permits are required to collect it on state parks and other public lands COMMENTS: A relatively uncommon species and a habitat specialist but still widely enough distributed over a fairly wide range of habitat types that it is reasonably secure in the state. Some of its favored habitats along the barrier islands and coastal fringe sandhills are likely to be lost due to sea level rise, however. March 2021 The Moths of North Carolina - Early Draft 1.
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