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Scarlet-winged Lichen-moth

Hypoprepia miniata

Plate XIII — Scarlet-winged Lichen-moth is Fig. 41
Plate XIII — Scarlet-winged Lichen-moth is Fig. 41
Scarlet-winged Lichen-moth (detail)
Scarlet-winged Lichen-moth (detail)

This rather common insect ranges from Canada to the Carolinas and westward in the region of the Great Lakes to Minnesota. It comes freely, as do all the species of the genus, to light, and I have found it very abundant at times about the lamps in the village of Saratoga, New York. I have taken it at Asheville, North Carolina, and at the White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, but have never received specimens from low altitudes on the Virginian and Carolinian coasts.