Intractable Quaker
Kocakina fidelis (Grote, 1874)
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Hadeninae
Identification: Forewing grayish to reddish-brown; lines yellowish, broken; spots outlined with yellow; heavy black spot on basal line, fainter black spots on AM and PM lines near inner margin; hindwing grayish-brown, darker toward outer margin
Wing Span: 2.5 to 3.5 cm
Life History:
Flight: March to May, and again in July
Caterpillar Hosts: Leaves of oak, elm, and flowering crabapple ; also reported on hickory and cherry
Adult Food:
Habitat: Dry woodlands
Range: Quebec and Maine to Florida, west to Texas and Kansas
Conservation:
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Comments: The name <i>Himella</i> was first introduced by Dallas in 1852 for bugs of the family Coreidae. Since it is still used as a valid generic name in Heteroptera, and is an older name than the <i>Himella</i> proposed by Grote in 1874, Ozdikmen and Seven proposed that the Lepidopteran <i>Himella</i> be replaced by <i>Kocakina</i>
Taxonomy Notes: Kocakina fidelis (Grote, 1874), was formerly in the genus Himella Grote, 1874, a junior homonym of Himella Dallas 1852, is transferred to Kocakina (Özdikmen & Seven, 2006) (replacement name), a genus which includes as a synonym Orthimella (Schmidt & Lafontaine, 2018) (unnecessary replacement name).
This name was synonymized with Himella intractata (Morrison, 1874) in Hodges et al. (1983) (Checklist) which regarded the publication year of fidelis to be 1875. The synonymy was reversed in Poole (1989) - Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010), ZooKeys, 40:154.
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Observation date: May 03, 2022
Submitted by: Michele Pollock
Region: Brown County, Indiana, United States
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Observation date: Apr 06, 2025
Submitted by: Steven Wilson
Region: Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States
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Region: York County, Maine, United States
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Region: Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
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Submitted by: BarbSendelbach
Region: Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
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Region: Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
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Region: Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
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Region: Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
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Observation date: May 02, 2024
Submitted by: Brittanie
Region: New York County, New York, United States
Verified by: Sue Gregoire
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Observation date: May 25, 2024
Submitted by: Steven Wilson
Region: Morgan County, West Virginia, United States
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Submitted by: cskipper
Region: Garrett County, Maryland, United States
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Region: Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Observation date: Apr 29, 2024
Submitted by: jrtindall
Region: Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
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Observation date: Apr 26, 2024
Submitted by: David Trently
Region: Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Observation date: Apr 09, 2024
Submitted by: K and G Campbell
Region: Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Submitted by: Mikelchap
Region: Glynn County, Georgia, United States
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Observation date: Jun 18, 2015
Submitted by: rdhealy1951@aol.com
Region: Hart County, Kentucky, United States
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Submitted by: naj.pilla
Region: Lake County, Indiana, United States
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Observation date: Apr 14, 2023
Submitted by: K and G Campbell
Region: Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Observation date: Apr 13, 2023
Submitted by: JMJaskula
Region: Newton County, Indiana, United States
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Observation date: Apr 12, 2023
Submitted by: TJ in Derry
Region: Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Submitted by: rapids
Region: Ontario, Canada
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Observation date: Apr 24, 2022
Submitted by: Sue Gregoire
Region: Schuyler County, New York, United States
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Verified date: May 05, 2022
Observation date: Apr 22, 2022
Submitted by: lassa8
Region: Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
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Verified date: Apr 24, 2022
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