Noctua pronuba in USA

[John Grehan]

Jonathan wrote

It is an introduced Old World
>(Palearctic) species, which was purportedly first introduced in Canada
>about 1994 or so, and has since been spreading throughout Eastern
>North America

this date conflicts with the date of 1979 by Lafontaine mentioned in the
earlier posting

 No American/Canadian
>literature that I am aware of concerning Noctuidae or moths in general
>treats this species; it is too new of a phenomenon.

The species is illustrated in Moths and Butterflies of Vermont, for a specimen
collected 6 June 1992.

John Grehan