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GENERAL NOTES
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 46(2), 1992, 159
OCCURRENCE OF DISPHRAGIS CAPTIOSA (NOTODONTIDAE) IN ARIZONA Additional key words: Mexico, national record, United States.
There have been specimens of a notodontid from Arizona in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM) for over 40 years. The species was identified as Disphragis captiosa Draudt, 1932, but the identification was made too late for its inclusion in McDunnough's 1938 Checklist. The record remained unpublished, and subsequently was left out of the 1983 MONA Checklist (Franclemont 1983). This note will facilitate its inclusion in a subsequent list.
Disphragis captiosa was described by Draudt (1932) from specimens collected in Zacualpan and Cuernavaca, Mexico. The type is a female in the Draudt collection. The female is similar to the female of Heterocampa obliqua Pack., 1864, in general appearance, but much smaller (33 mm versus 47 mm). Specimens were taken in Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, on 22 and 25 August 1946, and 17 and 20 August 1949 by J. A. Comstock, L. M. Martin, and C. W. Kirkwood (LACM). I collected a single specimen in a residential area on the north side of Tucson, Pima Co., Arizona, on 11 August 1974. The LACM also has one specimen from Rincon, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, which may represent the southern extent of its range.
All six specimens examined are females as is the type. I hope that this note will stimulate Arizona collectors to generate more records for this species, and perhaps collect the male. Disphragis captiosa can be recognized by a large oval yellow-brown patch on the f orewing, that starts at the reniform and extends outward toward the apex and outer margin.
Literature Cited
Draudt, M. 1932. Notodontidae, pp. 901-1070. In Seitz, A. (ed.), Macrolepidoptera
of the American Region, Vol. 6, Amer. Bombyces & Sphinges. 1296 pp., 185 pis. Franclemont, J. G. 1983. Notodontidae, pp. 112-114. In Hodges, R. W. et al. (eds.),
Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. E. W. Classey Ltd. and
The Wedge Entomol. Res. Found., London, xvii + 284 pp. McDUNNOUGH, J. 1938. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States
of America. Part 1 (Macrolepidoptera). Mem. Southern California Acad. Sci., Los
Angeles. 275 pp.
Ron Leuschner, Research Associate, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007
Received for publication 3 October 1991; revised and accepted 23 February 1992.
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HILEITHIA DECOSTALIS (CRAMBIDAE: PYRAUSTINAE), NEW TO THE UNITED STATES
Additional key words: distribution, new record, checklist placement.
Hiliethia decostalis (Guenee, 1854) is a relatively small pyraustine moth native to the neotropics. Although there is a specimen from Mexico in the collection of the USNM (A.