Syngrapha octoscripta (Grote 1874)
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'Silver-eight looper moth.'
Hodges #: 8926. Identification: Rfw 15-18 mm, fw mottled gray with some brown shading in median area, stigma an irregular 'sideways 8' usually gray filled. Meta-tibiae with a few spiniform setae. Male valve with a preapical seta. Similar species: 8914, 8939, 9353, 6235. Distribution: Alaska to Labrador, southward to northeast and north central United States. Lafontaine & Poole (1991), p 103, fig. 44 show a collection record for the northeastern quarter of ND. Hosts: Larvae feed on Vaccinium species.
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