badia (Packard, 1864) (: ) in Louisiana by Vernon Antoine Brou Jr., 74320 Jack Loyd Road, Abita Springs, Louisiana 70420 email: [email protected] The notodontid (Packard) (Fig. 1) has been captured in Louisiana only at two locations despite 39 years of extensive year-round light trapping in surrounding parishes and throughout the state. I have found badia fairly common at the Abita Springs study site, a b recording 730 specimens over numerous years (Fig. 2). Fig. 1. Schizura badia (Packard) a. male, b. female. 26 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

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0 number of adults Fig. 2. Adult Schizura badia captured at sec.24T6SR12E, 4.2 mi. NE of Abita Springs, Louisiana. n = 730

In Louisiana, the small in size (wingspan +/- 30 mm) badia adult has four well differentiated annual broods, first brood peaking last week of April, second peaking about June 19, with subsequent broods at about 42-day intervals (Fig. 2). The parish records are illustrated in Fig.3. Packard (1895) listed the foodplant of badia to be a Viburnum species. Two species of Viburnum occur quite commonly at the Abita Springs, study site. Packard also listed the known geographical distribution in 1895 to include: Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Maine, Covell (1984) reported badia is local and uncommon throughout eastern North America and occurring May through September. Heppner Fig. 3. Parish records for S. badia . (2003) listed the range of badia in eastern North America includes: Nova Scotia to Florida and Manitoba to Texas. Knudson and Bordelon (1999) list badia in their checklist of Texas lepidoptera. Literature cited Covell, Jr., C.V. 1984. A field guide to eastern North America. The Peterson Field Guide Series No. 30. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. xv + 496pp., 64 plates. Heppner, J.B. 2003. of Florida and neighboring land areas, vol. 17: Lepidoptera of Florida, Div. Plant Industry, Fla. Dept. Agr. & Consum. Serv., Gainesville. x + 670 pp., 55 plates. Knudson, E. & C. Bordelon 1999. Texas Lepidoptera Survey, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Texas 2000 edit. Privately printed Packard, A.S. 1864. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., iii, p361. Packard, A.S. 1895. Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of America North of Mexico, including their Transformations and Origin of the Larval Markings and armature. Pt.1. Family 1. Notodontidae. Nat. Acad. Sci. vol. VII. First Memoir on the Bombycine Moths. 0 1-Jan 0 0 n = 730 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 1-Feb 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 1-Mar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 1-Apr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 2 2 1 6 6 5 2 3 2 6 4 4 4 7 26 3 1-May 3 1 1 5 1 4 3 5 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 1-Jun 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 3 3 4 9 6 10 7 9 13 5 21 21 9 9 5 5 5 4 2 5 3 5 26 1 1-Jul 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 7 4 8 8 10 4 4 9 8 8 15 10 26 11 1-Aug 18 14 12 18 7 9 4 3 3 1 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 2 2 0 26 8 1-Sep 11 9 15 16 19 15 15 7 12 14 24 13 9 9 5 9 9 5 4 5 3 5 4 1 1 1 0 2 0 26 0 Oct. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 1-Nov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 1-Dec 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0