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Blue Jay, Vol.64, Issue 4 INSECTS_ CHECKLIST OF SASKATCHEWAN MOTHS: PART 17-GEOMETRIDAE (3), ALSOPHILINAE, GEOMETRINAE AND STERRHINAE RONALD R. HOOPER, Box 757, Fort Qu’Appelle, SK SOG ISO This is a continuation of the list of Subfamily ALSOPHILINAE Saskatchewan geometric! moths. The (OENOCHROMINAE) first geometric! article was published Our only species of this group is the in Blue Jay, Volume 64, Number 2. Fall Cankerworm. The male flies late in the fall. The wingless females climb Unless otherwise indicated, all the up the tree trunks to lay their eggs on species are represented in the Royal the upper trunks or branches. These Saskatchewan Museum collection in eggs hatch in the spring and the young Regina. The species are arranged feed on the leaves. At maturity, the according to the website of Jim larvae drop to the ground and spin Troubridge and Don Lafontaine, The cocoons in the soil from which the Moths of Canada,9 with updates to adults emerge in the fall.3 (Recent 2006 provided to the author by Greg research suggests that this subfamily Pohl. This website also has colour be moved to Subfamily Ennominae as photographs of the moths. McGuffin’s Tribe Alsophilini.10) well-illustrated Guide to Geometridae of Canada covers the subfamilies Fall Cankerworm Alsophila covered here.56 This reference is the pometaria (Harr.) - S. Sask., n. to source of some of the information Cumberland House and Prince Albert. presented here, but the preferred food (24-33 mm - males) (Sept. 21-Nov.8, plants listed are primarily based on April 6-June 13 - spring adults are rare) Prentice.7 The common names that are Reported on maple and elm. used are mostly according to J. R. J. Llewellen Jones and C. V. Covell, Jr..14 Subfamily GEOMETRINAE (Emeralds) Recent scientific name changes are Moths of this group are rather according to M. J. Scoble.8 small(18-30 mm). Most of them are a beautiful pale green with two sets of In this article the size, and early and white lines crossing both wings. Most late dates of Saskatchewan of the males have pectinate antennae specimens are given. Some of the in order to pick up more readily the recorded food plants are mentioned. scent of the females. The adults are Abbreviations: s = south, n = north, mostly nocturnal except for the Plain w=west, e=east, CNC = Canadian Emerald. National Collection in Ottawa, RSM=Royal Saskatchewan Museum Looped Emerald Nemoria unitaria in Regina. (Pack.) - Central Sask., n. to Loon Lake; 212 Blue Jay Female Fall Cankerworm Male Fall Cankerworm RSM collection, Emersen Ziffle RSM collection, Emersen Ziffle s. to Fort Esperance and Fort myrtle, willow, hawthorn and Qu’Appelle. Also in Cypress Hills buffaloberry. Provincial Park (Centre Block). (25-30 mm) (July 6-19) Reported on currant EXPECTED SPECIES and gooseberry. See inside back Red-fronted Emerald Nemorla cover, top photo. rublfrontaria (Pack.) - E. Canada, w. to Alberta. Reported on bog myrtle. White-faced Emerald Nemorla mimosaria Gn. - Central Sask., n. to Badland Emerald Dichorda rectaria Erwood; s. to Roche Percee and (Grote) - N. to Milk River, Alberta. Avonlea. (24-26 mm) (June 4-26) Collected by M. Conrad, June 25, Reported on birch, fir and tamarack. 1979. The specimen is at the RSM in Regina. This is the first report of this Wavy-lined Emerald Synchlora species for Canada. Previously it was aerata albolineata Pack.- S. Sask., n. reported only as far north as Slope to Somme, Waskesiu area and Loon County, North Dakota.2 Lake. (18-30 mm) (June 28-Sept. 12) Reported on aster, blazing star, black- Subfamily STERRHINAE (Waves) eyed susan, sunflower and raspberry. These moths are quite small (14- 26 mm) and dull coloured. Both wings Two-lined Emerald Synchlora are crossed by dark wavy lines, giving bistriaria (Pack.) - Sw. Sask., e. to Fort them the common name “the waves.” Qu’Appelle area; n. to Saskatoon area. The beautiful Chickweed Moth is an (22-28 mm) (July 11-28) Reported on exception, being yellow with the wings flowers of sunflower, goldenrod and crossed by reddish lines (see inside rose. back cover, middle photograph). The Pearl-grey Wave of birch woods has a Blackberry Looper Moth small round circle on each wing. The Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria (Gn.) - hind tibiae of the males usually have a Roche Percee, Estevan and Fort hair brush or spur. Esperance. (18-20 mm) (June 29-July 1) Reported on flowers of goldenrod Frosted Tan Wave Scopula and yarrow. cacumlnaria (Morrison) -Trossachs and Buffalo Pound Provincial Park. (16- Plain Emerald Mesothea Incertata 22 mm) (June 20-July 8) Reported on (Wlk.) - Throughout Sask.(18-20 mm) dandelion and lettuce. (May 14-June 29) Reported on bog 64 (4). December 2006 213 Dark-ribboned Wave Leptostales ferruminarla (Zeller) - S. Sask., n. to Tantallon, Fort Qu’Appelle and Douglas Park (14-17 mm) (May 8-Aug.l) Pearl-grey Wave Cyclophora pendulinaria (Gn.) - N. Sask., s. to Swan Plain area, Prince Albert area Large Lace-border and Harlan area; also at St. Victor (20- RSM collection, Emersen Ziffle 24 mm) (June 8-Aug. 13) Reported on birch, alder and willow. Large Lace-border Scopula limboundata (Haworth) - S. Sask., n. Rough-winged Wave Idaea to Gordon Lake (n. of Pinehouse). (22- rotundopennata (Packard) 26 mm) (June 20-Aug. 7) Reported on Throughout Sask. (19-23 mm) (June elm, knotweed and cherry. 12-July 16) Reported on knotweed. Pointed-winged Wave Scopula Chickweed Moth Haematopis ancellata Hulst - St. Victor and grataria (Fab.) - S. Sask., n. to Indian Rockglen. (22 mm) (June 30-Aug 14) Head, Saskatoon area and Macklin area (21-26 mm) (June 27-Aug. 13) Ochreous Wave Scopula fuscata Reported on knotweed. (See inside (Hulst) - Cypress Hills. (24 mm) (June back cover, middle photograph.) 14) Acknowledgements United Wave Scopula junctaria I thank Klaus Bolte of Ottawa for (Walker) - S. Sask., n. to Sturgeon checking the identification of most of Landing and Buffalo Narrows (22-26 our geometrid species. I also thank mm) (May 27-Aug.3) Reported on elm, Greg Pohl of Edmonton for checking stitchwort and clover. this manuscript and giving helpful suggestions. Four-lined Wave Scopula quadrilineata (Packard) - Greenbush 1. COVELL, C. v„ Jr. 1984. A Field Guide to the Moths of Eastern North America. Houghton and Waskesiu Lake (21 mm) (June 24) Mufflin, Boston, (well illustrated) Reported on clover. 2. FERGUSON, D. C. 1985. The Moths of America Arctic Wave Scopula frigidaria North of Mexico. Fascicle 18.1 Geometroidea. Geometridae (Part). (Subfamily Geometrinae) The (Moschler) - N. Sask., s. to Preeceville Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, and Harlan (20-23 mm) (June 18-July Washington, (well illustrated) 7) 3. IVES, W. G. H. and H. R. WONG. 1988. Tree and Shrub Insects of the Prairie Provinces. Soft-lined Wave Scopula inductata Information Report NOR-X-292. Canadian (Gn.) - Throughout Sask. (23-25 mm) Forestry Service, Edmonton. (May 27-Sept. 12) Reported on sweet clover, aster and cherry. 4. LLEWELLEN JONES J. R. J. 1951. An Annotated Checklist of the Macrolepidoptera of British Columbia. Occasional Paper No. 1. The Magnet Moth Scopula sentenaria Entomological Society of British Columbia. (Geyer) - S. Sask., n. to Swan Plain, Candle Lake and Harlan area (22-25 mm) (May 27-July 3) 214 Blue Jay 5. MCGUFFIN, W.C. 1967. Guide to the 8. SCOBLE, M. J. (Ed.) 1999. A Taxonomic Geometridae of Canada. I. Subfamily Sterrhinae. Catalogue of the Geometridae of the World. 2 Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. vols., CSIRO publications, Melbourne. No. 50. 9. TROUBRIDGE, J. and D. LAFONTAINE, 6. MCGUFFIN, W.C. 1988. Guide to the website http://www.cbif.gc.ca/spp_pages/mise Geometridae of Canada. Ill Archiearinae, IV _moths/phps/mothindex_ e.php Oenochrominae and V Geometrinae. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, No. 145. 10. YOUNG, C.J. 2006. Molecular relationships of the Australian Ennominae (Lepidoptera: 7. PRENTICE, R. M. 1963. Forest Lepidoptera of Geometridae) and implications for the phylogeny Canada: Recorded by the Forest Insect Survey. of the Geometridae from molecular data. Zootaxa Vol. 3. Canada Department of Forestry, Ottawa, 1264. 1-147. Ontario. NOTES AND LETTERS FRANKLIN’S GULLS KILL WOUNDED INDIVIDUAL On a beautiful September day about seconds, other gulls spotted this 15 years ago, I was watching flocks of situation and immediately attacked and Franklin’s Gulls feeding on killed the wounded bird. Then they left grasshoppers and mice while I was it in the field and went about their regular summerfallowing, about 5 miles routine of soaring and feeding. Could southwest of Kyle, SK. One gull struck this have been a case of mercy killing? an overhead power line and fell to the ground. It walked around with its broken - Cameron Brose, 627 Advent Bay, wing hanging out painfully. Within Calgary, AB T1X 1N8 PAINTED TURTLES IN WASCANA LAKE The Painted Turtle shown in the Editor’s note: inside back cover was photographed Painted Turtles are native to southern on the south shore of Spruce Island in Saskatchewan and commonly found in Regina’s Wascana Lake on August 25, farmyard dugouts, sloughs and areas 2006. On one hot afternoon in 2006, I of quiet river water. Although turtles saw eight turtles sunning themselves would have been impacted by the in this area. It surprised me to see so dredging of Wascana Lake, these many turtles because three years ago reptiles do move to colonize new areas. the lake was totally dug out and no They are also frequently relocated by turtles could have survived that event. people releasing pets or helping females across roads in the spring - Diether Peschken, 2900 Rae Street, when the animals are looking for nest Regina, SK are S4S 1R5.
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