ID this noctuid?

[James Kruse]

Greetings:

Best bet so far is an Eudocima spp (thanks James Adams). Members of this
genus have a history of being shipboard stowaways. Buldir Island is not
exactly where you want to end up to homestead, so maybe one morning it was
shooed away from a light on the deck of a ship?

Anyhow, thanks to Barb Beck, I have someone to host the picture for me. You
can see the moth at:

http://owlnut.rr.ualberta.ca/~barb/moth/MysteryMoth.html

Please let me know if you can identify it for me. The photo date is 23 June
2001.

Regards,
Jim

on 10/12/01 3:27 PM, James Kruse at fnjjk1 at uaf.edu wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> I have a good picture of a large, colorful, and probably a strong flying
> noctuid that was caught, photographed and released (to my extreme dismay) on
> Buldir Island in the western Aleutians. I suspect it is a stray from the
> Oriental subregion of the Palaearctic, but I don't know for sure. I have seen
> similar species in Japan when I was there.
> 
> It looks like Catocalinae, but not a Catocala spp. The forewings strongly
> resemble dead leaves, including the main leaf vein leading out to the produced
> apex. The hind wings are yellow with black stripes. The wingspread looks to be
> over 3 inches, maybe closer to 4 (wings reach across a woman's hand). It looks
> rather distinctive to me. If someone would like to take a look at this thing I
> can send the picture.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> James J. Kruse, Ph.D.
> Curator of Entomology
> University of Alaska Museum
> 907 Yukon Drive
> Fairbanks, AK, USA 99775-6960
> tel 907.474.5579
> fax 907.474.1987
> http://www.uaf.edu/museum/ento
> 


 
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